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Border management
Long, thin, under-resourced frontiers. Persistent air cover for detection, tracking and the handover to whoever responds on the ground — day, night and across terrain that no vehicle patrol reaches twice.
FAGM · Rand Airport · South Africa
Some ground can only be held from the air.
Pointer Logistics supplies, supports and procures for manned aviation — and designs and builds the unmanned aircraft that fly beside it. One hangar, both halves of the flight line.
Supply · Procurement · Development
26°14′33″S 028°09′04″E · ELEV 5482 FT
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The bearing
Aviation stops working when the parts, the paperwork and the people who fix it sit with three different suppliers. We hold all three.
Operators across Africa fly hard, far from a spares counter, in conditions that punish equipment. Pointer exists to shorten that line: sourcing, supplying and supporting manned fleets, then extending the same discipline to the unmanned aircraft we design and manufacture ourselves.
The two sides feed each other. What we learn keeping crewed aircraft serviceable in the field shapes how we build airframes for it — and what we build unmanned takes the routine, the repetitive and the dangerous off the crewed fleet.
Where we work
Five kinds of ground.
One set of instruments.
Bearing 092
Mining
Pit surveys, stockpile volumes, tailings and haul roads on a repeatable schedule — plus perimeter overwatch across boundaries and shaft areas that are too large to walk and too valuable to leave unwatched.
Bearing 164
Survey & mapping
Aerial capture for engineering, environmental and land data, flown to the same line every time. Corridors, catchments, powerlines and pipelines — surveyed at a cadence that makes change visible.
Bearing 236
Security
Overwatch for infrastructure, transport corridors and high-value sites. Aircraft that get eyes onto an incident before a team commits, and stay there while it is resolved.
Bearing 308
Conservation
Anti-poaching patrols, game counts and habitat monitoring across reserves too large to fence and too remote to staff. Quiet aircraft, long legs, and data rangers can act on the same day.
What we do
Four disciplines,
run as one line.
Supply
Keep it serviceable
Parts, consumables, ground support equipment and AOG cover. Aircraft on ground is measured in hours, not days, and we plan our stock around that.
- Rotables & consumables
- AOG response
- Ground support equipment
Support
Keep it flying
Maintenance liaison, spares logistics, technical documentation and operator support — the unglamorous work that decides whether a fleet makes its hours.
- Fleet availability
- Spares logistics
- Technical liaison
Procurement
Source it properly
Aircraft, components, sensors and systems, sourced against a specification rather than a catalogue. Supplier vetting, traceability, import and export handled end to end.
- Specification & sourcing
- Supplier vetting
- Import, export & compliance
Development
Build what is missing
Design, integration and manufacture of unmanned aircraft and mission systems — for the jobs where nothing on the market fits the ground, the range or the budget.
- Airframe design
- Payload integration
- Series manufacture
Unmanned
We are building
our own airframes.
Pointer is standing up unmanned aircraft manufacture at Rand Airport: airframe design, assembly, payload integration and test under one roof, with the supply and support business already in the building.
The aircraft are built for African operating conditions — distance, dust, altitude and very little infrastructure at the far end of the flight. Platform details and performance figures follow their release.
Specifications embargoed — released on announcement
The base
Rand Airport,
Gauteng.
A licensed airfield on the edge of Johannesburg's industrial belt — hangar space, a runway on the doorstep and the freight, customs and engineering network of Gauteng within reach. Supply, support and manufacture sit in the same place, which is the point.
- ICAO
- FAGM
- IATA
- QRA
- Elevation
- 5 482 ft
- Runways
- 11/29 · 17/35
Enquiries
Tell us the ground
you need covered.
Supply, support, procurement or an unmanned requirement you have not been able to buy off a shelf — write to us and we will come back with something concrete.
info@pointerlogistics.co.za