Odengene Air Shuttle Services Limited (OAS)
Odengene Air Shuttle Services Limited (OAS) is an indigenous aviation company registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), on February 4th, 1992.
Licensed by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to render flight service within Nigeria and Africa, South of Sahara .
The Company flight outfit is subdivided and to cover two areas of flight activities of; rotary and fixed wing. The rotary wing arm is known as OAS Helicopters while the fixed wing is known as Odengene Air.
OAS Helicopters started out rendering ad-hoc charter flights for VIPs and specialized service providers in Nigeria. Between 2006 and 2013, our main focus was onshore operations where we have flown for critical stakeholders on our economy, political leadership, corporate Nigeria and social leverages, financial institutions, construction companies, manufacturing and solid mineral exploration companies, Humanitarian Organizations, as well as breweries, product and political campaign organizations, geographical surveyors, entertainment industries etc.
We have also supported National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in locating crash and disaster sites and the distribution of relief materials to flood disaster areas. We rendered services for medical emergency outfits; hospitals and emergency services companies in Nigeria. During this period, we also undertook Banner Tow flights, the size of three-quarter of a football field, for campaign organisations in Nigeria, as well as numerous types of geographical survey with specialised helicopter mounted cameras/equipment that required STCs around the country. Due to the extensive and specialised operations undertaken, OAS was the first and only commercial helicopter operator in Nigeria, since Nigeria Independence, with the Federal government permits to operate and land civil helicopters at Nigeria’s Federal capital city of Abuja.
From the start of business in 2006, to the end of December 2013, OAS had flown over 14,800 hours on onshore ad-hoc, VIP and specialized helicopter operations in Nigeria.
By 2014, we had begun capacity building to upgrade to deep offshore oil and gas flight support services for oil majors in Nigeria. And at the end of 2023, OAS has clocked over 12000 offshore flying hours to various deep offshore locations.
Our 5 hectares block at the Lagos Airport
(located between the runways 18 left & 18 right)
- 24,000 sq meters ramp to support fixed-wing and rotary-wing operations
- Two separate hangar work space of 4900 sq meters each to support maintenance of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft
- A 14 meter head room lock-up hangar
- Terminal building to cater for local and international arrival and departures
Infrastructure Investments – Port Harcourt
- We have a 30,000 square meter functional operations base at Port Harcourt NAF Base
- This facility houses a new terminal building, administrative block, an upgraded hangars and ramp to the existing taxi-way which supports both airplane and helicopter operations
