Sounds Air

Sounds Air
IATA ICAO Callsign
S8 SDA[1] SOUNDSAIR[1]
Founded1986
Operating basesWellington Airport
Fleet size10
Destinations9
HeadquartersBlenheim, New Zealand
Key peopleCliff Marchant (Founder), Andrew Crawford (Chief Executive/Director), Rhyan Wardman (Chairman, Director), Steve Handyside (Director), Simon Craddock (Director)
Websitesoundsair.com
A Sounds Air Cessna Caravan at Wellington International Airport in 2009
Sounds Air Grand Caravan landing at Picton in 2006.
A Sounds Air Grand Caravan at Christchurch Airport in 2014.
One of Sounds Air's PC12's (ZK-PLV) at Wellington International.

Sounds Air is a New Zealand airline based in Marlborough.[2] The airline was founded in 1986 by Cliff and Diane Marchant to provide low cost flights to the Marlborough Sounds.[3] The airline's head office as well as its Sounds Aero Maintenance division is based at Omaka aerodrome.[4]

  1. ^ a b Not an ICAO allocation – issued for domestic use by the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
  2. ^ "Airline schedules more Nelson flights". The Nelson Mail. 20 November 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  3. ^ "Sounds Air » Company background". Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  4. ^ Ltd, Beacon Hill Design. "Sounds Aero Maintenance » Marlborough based aircraft maintenance". www.soundsaero.co.nz.