Guardian Air Asset Management

Guardian Air Asset Management is an air operator based at Lanseria International Airport near Johannesburg, South Africa. It runs a fleet of intensive care air ambulance jets that fly across Africa. Its parent brand is Guardian Air. Type: air operator that flies its own aircraft. The patient care teams come from its emergency medical partners.

Medical evacuation

Guardian Air says it offers 24 hour air ambulance services in Africa. Its website describes a dedicated fleet of ICU jets that can carry more than one patient. It says it works with its medical partners to handle the long distances and remote places on the continent.

The company says it is the aeromedical service provider to two private emergency care companies:

• ER24 EMS, a subsidiary of Mediclinic International
• Netcare911

It also says it has been nominated as the official aeromedical provider to the island of St Helena.

Aircraft

The aircraft types on its operating certificate are the King Air 200, Falcon 20, Falcon 50EX, Falcon 900EX and Hawker 700/800. The site does not say which of these are set up as air ambulances.

Accreditation and licences

• NAAMTA accreditation, which the site says was the first on the African continent
• A non-scheduled operating licence from the South African Civil Aviation Authority, endorsed for aeromedical transfers
• International and domestic operating licences from the Department of Transport

Other services

Guardian Air also runs executive and safari charters, aircraft management, hangar space at Lanseria, and aircraft maintenance through Guardian Air Maintenance.

Facts

• Base: Hangar 7, Lanseria International Airport
• Company registered in 2009, as stated on the site