Professional Aviation Services

Highly Engaged Employees

The company has experience in all aspects of aviation, since 1981, including aircraft sales and the operation of passenger and cargo aircraft, and has purchased and sold corporate aircraft on behalf of major corporations, and prominent individuals, for over three decades. Professional has accumulated a comprehensive and detailed knowledge of the se... curity industry, with specific focus on warehousing, distribution, aviation cargo security and training. The company training division provides air cargo security training, as well as training in all dangerous goods categories and human factors, the company is registered with the SACAA as a Training Provider. Rob Garbett, the CEO, is a member of the Council of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is an Honorary Lifetime Director of CAASA (The Commercial Aviation Association of Southern Africa), a life Fellow of the IoD (Institute of Directors in Southern Africa) and serves on various air cargo security committees as well as the Civil Aviation Regulations Committee (CARcom). Prior to joining Professional Aviation Services, Rob was the managing director, and major shareholder, in "Advertising Deadlines and Freight (Pty) Ltd", a domestic air courier company that he founded in 1980. The company was sold to its major competitor in 1982. Rob's experience in the movement of cargo extends over more than 50 years. Christine Garbett qualified as an instrument rated commercial pilot in 1978. Christine's flying career includes several single engine solo ferry flights between Europe and South Africa and numerous passenger flights into the Okavango Delta. Christine is primarily responsible for administration and finance and is also a Fellow of IoD. Gerhard van Zyl, the General Manager, is responsible for sales, marketing and logistic security operations. Gerhard holds a B-com degree (major law), a private pilot's licence and is one of only two South Africans to have appeared in the Guinness Record Book for Golf. He has extensive international ...Read More