COMPANY PROFILE
Aves Holdings is the brainchild of CEO Valentine Duma who built the company from scratch, after many years of operating as Nhlanhleni Aviation on contract to third party Aircraft Maintenance Organisation (AMO)s.
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N 2015 DUMA DECIDED to take the plunge and set up on his own. He founded Aves Holdings as an umbrella company for Aves Technics and then later, Aves Training Academy. AVES TECHNICS Aves Technics was established in 2018 and received its Aircraft Maintenance Organisation licence (AMO 1541) from the SACAA, shortly before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. This meant that it launched without any immediate business due to Valentine Duma launched Aves Technics as the Covid pandemic broke.
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the lockdown restrictions. The breakthrough happened when Sahel Aviation Services (SAS), a large VIP and Humanitarian charter company based in Bamako, Mali, became their first official client with a line management contact for their fleet. On signing this contract, Aves Technics set up a branch in Mali and sent a team of South African engineers to Bamako. Aves Technics is continually developing specialist capabilities. It has joined forces with Fokker Techniek in the Netherlands and Aloft Aero
