FIELDS AIRMOTIVE - RAND AIRPORT - JOHANNESBURG
FACILITY
& HISTORY
SIZE - HISTORY - AIRPORT
Fields Airmotive is located at Rand Airport, Germiston, South Africa, 15Km from the centre of Johannesburg and 30Km from Sandton. Fields Airmotive has highway access to all the major surrounding airports including the two international airports of OR Tambo International and Lanseria International airport
Main Hangar Building - Rand Airport (FAGM)
Direct access to taxi-way
Free Volume 33.20m Width X 33.00m Length
Height at roof apex: 12.50m Doors height: 8.30m Cut Out above doors for Vert Fin: 11.50m
Length of main hangar is extendable by 7.00m under a 5.30m above floor level beam, which links to secondary hangar
Secondary Hangar - Rand Airport
Work area attached to rear of main hangar
24.00m Wide X 33.00m Length
Additional Buildings - Rand Airport
Engine Overhaul Workshop - Hangar backshop
Engine Test Bench Facility - Offices - Archives
Satellite Hangar - OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg (FAOR)
Fields Airmotive has access to, under rental agreement, for use of hangar for aircraft requiring a hangar larger than that at Rand Airport.
Direct access to taxi-way
Free Volume 33.20m Width X 33.00m Length
Height at roof apex: 12.50m Doors height: 8.30m Cut Out above doors for Vert Fin: 11.50m
Length of main hangar is extendable by 7.00m under a 5.30m above floor level beam, which links to secondary hangar
Secondary Hangar - Rand Airport
Work area attached to rear of main hangar
24.00m Wide X 33.00m Length
Additional Buildings - Rand Airport
Engine Overhaul Workshop - Hangar backshop
Engine Test Bench Facility - Offices - Archives
Satellite Hangar - OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg (FAOR)
Fields Airmotive has access to, under rental agreement, for use of hangar for aircraft requiring a hangar larger than that at Rand Airport.
Fields Airmotive - Hangar 0 - Rand Airport - Door opening shown in red
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Rand Airport
Fields Airmotive is located at Rand Airport, which is a privately owned civil airport, located in Germiston, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. The airport has Jet A1 and Avgas supply and accommodates air charter operators, numerous flight schools, a number of aircraft maintenance companies, pilot shops, all the main car hire companies and other aviation related businesses |
Rand Airport Details (FAGM) Longest Runway 5446ft (1660 X 15m) Asphalt Elevation AMSL 5,483 ft Coordinates 26°14′33″S 028°09′04″E |
Fields Airmotive main hangar location for aircraft ground movements
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A history of serving aviation since the 1930s
Although we have been in the aviation business a long time, experiencing various name, ownership and political changes, we have not become complacent and have always put the customer forefront in our business so we may continue with our proud heritage into the future. Fields Airmotive’s heritage extends back for over 80 years. It started business as an aircraft operating company at Baragwaneth airport, south of Johannesburg in the early 1930’s. The parent of Fields in Africa was the Aircraft Operating Company (AOC) of London, which carried out aerial survey work in Africa with fleet consisting of a Puss Moth and a Dragon Rapide. The maintenance of the two aircraft was not enough to justify a special servicing team, so
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so the team was made available to other aircraft operators. Thus APTL was created in 1935 with the decision to broaden the scope of APL to embrace technical representation of overseas aircraft and aeroengine manufactures in South Africa. World War II saw the staff join the South African Air Force and they reformed after the war in Rand Airport, where the company has remained ever since. Hunting family bought some shares in the AOC Company following the war.
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Hunting itself started when Charles Samuel Hunting entered the oil business in the 1890's expanding a ship owning firm set up by his father. He pursued exploration prospects in Russia, built the first batch oil refinery on the Thames, UK and ordered one of the first ever oil tankers and became the largest independent tanker fleets in the world. After the Second World War Hunting expanded into all sorts of ventures, not always successfully, including aircraft servicing, manufacturing, airline business and a defence company whose precision engineering skills gave rise to the formation of an oil services company. Hunting name in aviation became synonymous with a range of military and civil aircraft including the Jet Provost. During this time, when hostilities of World War Two ceased, Fields was soon to be reformed at Rand Airport and in 1952 the name of Field Aircraft Services (Africa) Pty Limited was adapted and the company moved into the Rand Airport premises vacated by South African Airways when they moved to Palmietfontein Airport and later to Jan Smuts Airport. In July 1978 Field Aviation entered into a technical assistance agreement with Rolls Royce for the RR Dart engine., starting a long and fruitful partnership on this engine type.
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Hunting PLC group in the 1990s started to divest its many non-core activities and today Hunting PLC is an international energy services provider that manufactures and distributes products that enable the extraction of oil and gas. In the late 1990s, portions of Hunting Aviation (Pty) Limited where taken over by private investors and renamed to its present Fields Airmotive cc name and continues to operate at Rand airport in the engine and airframe overhaul and maintenance business, drawing on its history and experience gained over 80 years of operating on the African continent and serving customers globally.
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From a photo of Rand test cell in 1949 to today's students being given an insight to over 40 years experience from our propeller shop manager, Fields Airmotive continues the tradition with the company working closely with Rand's Airport aircraft apprenticeship school to pass on the knowledge of our staff to the next generation, through out of class room instruction and experience.
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South Africa & Johannesburg
Situated at the southern tip of Africa, South Africa is 1 233 404km² in size and is edged on three sides by nearly 3 000km of coastline, with the Indian Ocean to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The country is bordered in the north by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and also encloses two independent countries, the kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland
Johannesburg is the second largest city in Africa, with more than 3 million people. Johannesburg is geographically fairly centrally located in South Africa, and as the biggest urban conurbation and it’s also the largest transport hub – for local, cross-border and international travel. More international carriers fly here than any other city in southern Africa, and there are direct flights to most African cities, USA, major European cities, the Gulf, Australian and Asia
Situated at the southern tip of Africa, South Africa is 1 233 404km² in size and is edged on three sides by nearly 3 000km of coastline, with the Indian Ocean to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The country is bordered in the north by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and also encloses two independent countries, the kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland
Johannesburg is the second largest city in Africa, with more than 3 million people. Johannesburg is geographically fairly centrally located in South Africa, and as the biggest urban conurbation and it’s also the largest transport hub – for local, cross-border and international travel. More international carriers fly here than any other city in southern Africa, and there are direct flights to most African cities, USA, major European cities, the Gulf, Australian and Asia
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