Our History

Mike Seton founded East African Air Charters in the 1970’s as primarily a maintenance and repair company catering to the boom of privately owned aircraft in East Africa. Then, as now, small bush aircraft were often the only practical means of covering some of the huge distances involved where roads were poor. Mike’s remarkable knowledge of light aircraft and Cessna aircraft in particular was invaluable in helping to keep these aircraft flying safely. As the business increased, and after Mike’s son David had qualified as a commercial pilot, the company diversified into aircraft charter as well.

East African Air Charters still has its two main core operations running alongside each other – Mike overseeing the maintenance department, and David responsible for the flight operations.