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Request Access ← Back to Port ElysiumElysium Air flies from day one. It is Stella Maris Resort Air Service, a licensed Bahamian operator with a current air operator certificate and two aircraft, acquired with the estate and based at the Port of Entry airport beside it. From those two aircraft it grows module by module with the estate: more passenger aircraft on the Nassau and Florida routes, a dedicated freight fleet and a helicopter service, each added when the estate needs it.
Elysium Air opens with the certificate, the two aircraft and a business that already trades. From there it grows with the estate's rollout: each new aircraft is its own module, added route by route when owning it is cheaper than buying the same lift in, and each with its own crew, costs and financing.
The types shown are the candidates; the final fleet mix, routes and timing are settled in the full feasibility study.
A Piper Chieftain (9 seats) and an Aero Commander (6 seats) fly Resort Club charters and residents' private flights between Nassau, Exuma and Stella Maris. The business already trades at a small profit.
Cessna Grand Caravans are added on the Nassau run for workers, staff, residents and guests, one at a time as demand grows; 19-seat Twin Otters are chartered for workforce peaks.
First through a Bahamian operator that already holds US authority; then Elysium Air's own authority and its own Pilatus PC-12 once Florida flying justifies it. Light jets are chartered for premium trips.
The first Cessna SkyCourier freighter once freight passes about 20 tonnes a month, then one more for each further 96 tonnes: about four at maturity.
Added as its own module for airport transfers, sightseeing and excursions; a second only on measured demand.
A hurricane-resilient dome hangar and workshop, built with the first owned aircraft, alongside the warehouses.
Port Elysium's own procurement business is the on-site wholesaler to every restaurant, bar, café and hotel on the estate. Elysium Air is its air freight arm: bulk goods come by sea, while fresh food, high-value goods, parts and urgent materials come by air.
Today that freight rides as spare space in passenger aircraft. As volumes grow, Elysium Air adds dedicated freighters one at a time and owns the lift the estate would otherwise pay someone else for, during construction and for good.
Cessna SkyCouriers, built new as freighters, carrying 6,000 lb in three standard airline cargo containers. The first is owned once freight passes about 20 tonnes a month; about four at maturity.
The same hurricane-resilient dome system as the hangar houses the procurement warehouse, with cooled stores served by the estate's seawater cooling.
Spare freight capacity is sold to other Long Island businesses at the market rate.
Scheduled carriers already fly to Stella Maris. Elysium Air sells what a timetable cannot: control, capacity and certainty. Workers, staff, residents and guests move between Nassau and Stella Maris on the estate's own schedule, with room for their luggage and tools, plus on-demand flights to South Florida and across the Bahamas.
As the estate fills, tourist arrivals alone become the work of several aircraft, so the passenger fleet keeps growing route by route.
As the estate grows, Elysium Air adds one Airbus H125. It brings guests landing at Deadman's Cay or Exuma to Stella Maris in 15 to 25 minutes, with large luggage following by road on the estate's buses. It also flies 20- and 30-minute sightseeing flights over the island, private excursions and beach picnics.
A second helicopter follows only on measured demand, and any medical role only once the aircraft is equipped, staffed and approved.
Elysium Air is wholly owned by Port Elysium's HoldCo. Each new aircraft is its own financed module: the manufacturing country's export credit agency can fund up to 85% of a new aircraft, with the balance in equity.
Owners can also place their own aircraft with Elysium Air, which flies and sells the trips, and the airport offers handling, fuel and arrivals services.