THE COMMITTEE FOR
TROPICAL NORTH QUEENSLAND
GENERAL AVIATION
Fuelling connectivity across the region and expanding a skilled workforce
Cairns Airport’s thriving General Aviation Precinct is a major contributor to the regional economy, home to over 100 businesses including major maintenance, repair and overhaul organisations, education and training providers (Cairns Aviation Skills Centre and CQUniversity), freight consolidation services, and rescue and charter flights. Far North Queensland’s maintenance, repair and overhaul sector (MRO) is vital to the region’s connectivity, servicing fixed wing and rotary aircraft that ply the Cape, Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea and the wider Asia-Pacific. These services ensure emergency and humanitarian aid as well as FIFO flights remain in air and provide critical connectivity to areas where it matters most. With Jet Aviation the only and largest independent heavy maintenance provider for large turboprop and regional jet aircraft in Australia, with Skytek the only independent MRO for fixed and rotary wing on the East Coast of Australia and with an early-stage proposal for an advanced fibre and composites manufacturing and repair facility underway, the precinct has significant opportunity waiting to be unlocked.