Farmland and a Rift Valley lake seen from beneath the wing of a light aircraft

The experience

What charter looks like from the window seat

Film and photographs from recent flights — bush strips, flight decks and Kenya passing a few thousand feet below.

On film

Filmed on board

Unedited clips from recent sectors. Turn the sound up for the engine.

River bends across the plains 0:16

A river doubling back on itself through open savannah — the view from the window seat on a bush sector.

A waterfall from above 0:23

Falls dropping into a forested gorge in the highlands, seen at an angle no viewpoint on the ground can give you.

From the flight deck 1:24

Behind the panel of 5Y-GMM as the aircraft climbs out over open country under a big sky.

Airborne at first light 0:36

An early departure, with the cloud still lifting off the hills.

Low over Nairobi 0:33

Rooftops and new estates on the edge of the city, minutes after departure.

In pictures

On the ground and in the air

The aircraft, the crews and the strips — as our passengers see them.

Cessna Grand Caravan 5Y-PMM boarding passengers on a grass airstrip beside a safari Land Cruiser

Met at the strip

A Grand Caravan boarding on a grass strip, with the game-drive vehicle waiting alongside.

Two pilots in headsets at the controls of a twin-engine aircraft

Two crew up front

Captain and first officer on a twin-engine sector.

Aerial view of a Nairobi highway interchange and the city skyline beneath an aircraft wing strut

Over the city

The expressway and the Nairobi skyline passing under the wing strut.

Aerial view beneath a high wing of farmland and a large blue lake

Into the Rift Valley

Farmland in neat plots running down to the lake shore.

A white Cessna with orange and yellow stripes taxiing on the apron

Taxiing out

A single-engine Cessna on the apron, ready for a short hop.

Your turn

See it for yourself

Tell us where you want to go. Our charter desk sources the aircraft and comes back with a written quotation.