Remote and sometimes isolated, Northern Australia can be a challenging region to work.

At both our North Queensland and Northern Territory bases, Nautilus Aviation works closely with our government, mining, resource and telecommunications clients to provide an agile mode of transport to access these remote areas, while ensuring deadlines are met on budget.

Our Services:

• Mining support
• Geotechnical sampling
• Pipeline inspection
• Powerline inspection
• Radio communication tower maintenance
• Government agency projects
• Maritime
• Feral animal control
• Policing and surveillance
• Border security

Our helicopters offer safe and efficient mapping solutions for aerial surveys and are fitted with the latest GPS systems, allowing recorded data to be overlaid onto satellite images or imported to GIS software with ease.

Nautilus Aviation has a proven track record completing aerial survey projects across North Queensland and the Northern Territory for government agencies and universities.

Survey options include:

• Weed surveys
• Seagrass surveys
• Mine and geological surveys
• Cultural surveys
• Flora and fauna spotting
• Great Barrier Reef surveys

Contact us about any other survey requirements you have, and we’ll work with you on a solution.

Nautilus Aviation offers sling, heavy, and precision lifting services to assist you moving equipment including in remote and inaccessible areas. Our helicopters have long-line capability including all the equipment required to suit for a broad range of situations – all tested and maintained to the national standard. Our experienced long-line pilots are experts at precision operations in various locations.Nautilus Aviation are your heavy lift helicopter experts in northern Australia, utilising our Bell 212S (Eagle Single) with external load of 1,800 kg on the hook.

Nautilus Aviation is trusted by government agencies across Australia due to our outstanding reputation built on the quality and diversity of our fleet, our focus on safety, and our proven ability to deliver the highest quality service.

Given the sheer size and scale of Australia, Nautilus Aviation’s coverage in remote areas enables us to service our government clients with ease, even with short timeframes.

We can help with:

• Remote health access
• Infrastructure technology solutions
• Remote electoral and voting assistance
• Communities, housing and digital economiesE
• Remote education

Parks and wildlife monitoring and management

Defence and border security

Our fleet of helicopters located at our Queensland and Northern Territory bases provide smooth and comfortable transport for any film or photographic project.  This coupled with our ability to access remote areas means television news crews can to get to most scenes when important news needs to be covered.

Nautilus Aviation is able to rig camera equipment including gimbals to the exterior of the helicopter and doors can be removed to provide a clear field of view to ensure unobstructed shots, whilst still keeping safety paramount. With a seamless collaboration between pilot and photographer, we can safely manoeuvre into any position to capture the desired shots at the right composition and light.