New Zealand’s Fly My Sky enters voluntary liquidation

Commercial Helicopters Limited, trading as Fly My Sky (Taumarunui), has been placed into voluntary liquidation, its liquidators and a filing on the New Zealand company register confirms.

According to the regulatory notice, the 40-year-old small regional airline based in Auckland went into liquidation on June 29, 2021.

Clive Robert Bish and Gareth Russel Hoole from Ecovis KGA, an Auckland-based firm of chartered accountants and licensed insolvency practitioners, were appointed as joint liquidators on June 30. This followed after Commercial Helicopters t/a Fly My Sky was placed into liquidation by a special resolution of its shareholders late on June 29, pursuant to section 241(2)(a) of the Companies Act 1993, Hoole confirmed by email to ch-aviation.

Fly My Sky consequently ceased trading. A notice on its website states: “Fly My Sky flight status: No flights operating” and “Fly My Sky freight status: No freight operating”. The website has been stripped of information, and the company’s contact numbers have been disconnected.

Chief executive Scott Young was not immediately available for comment, while former owner and director, Robyn McKenzie, declined to do so.

Commercial Helicopters was jointly owned by Scott and Christine Dawn Young and the Mercham Trustee Company based at Mount Eden, Auckland, who bought the business on March 20, 2020, from previous owners Maxwell Till, and Keith and Robyn McKenzie, according to official records.

The company was incorporated on April 28, 1981, with a rotor-wing operation, migrating to an exclusive fixed-wing twin-engine operation by 2020.

It started operating scheduled flights to the Great Barrier Islands as Mountain Air (Taumarunui) more than 20 years ago. Before being placed into liquidation, it was providing daily scheduled services from its base at Taumarunui and North Shore to the Great Barrier Islands using a fleet of four twin-engine BN-2, as well as private charters throughout New Zealand. During the COVID-19 lockdown, Fly My Sky was operating an extended daily schedule into Okiwi as an essential service.