The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended the aircraft leasing operations (Specs Part G) of the Air Operator’s Certificate of Sky Power Express Airways Nig Limited due to non compliance and or violations of the provision of NCARS Part 9.2.3.4(b).
The NCAA has equally suspended operations of some private charter aircraft due to non-compliance of same ops Specs Part G.

The regulatory body issued the suspension in a letter addressed to the managing director of Sky Power Express Airways Nig Limited. The letter dated June 30th, 2020 with reference number NCAA/DG/AIR/11/16/129 was signed by Musa Nuhu, NCAA director-general, titled ‘Suspension of the Ops Specs Part G (Aircraft Leasing Operations) of your organization’s Air Operator’s Certificate’.

NCARS Part 9.2.3.4(b) refers to Wet Leasing aircraft and states: No holder of an AOC issued under this Part 9 may allow another entity or air operator to conduct wet-lease operations on its behalf (a wet-lease in) unless— that air operator holds an AOC or its equivalent from

a Contracting State that authorizes those operations; the AOC holder advises the Authority of such operations and provides a copy of the AOC under which the operation was conducted; such operation does not exceed a period of 12 months and the Authority approves the operations.

The letter in part read: “Be informed that by this action your organization ceases to exercise all the privileges associated with Part G authorization.

“Furthermore, the operations of the following aircraft listed on the Part G of your organization’s operations specifications are hereby suspended pending a full audit of your organization and compliance with all the relevant Nig. CARS: Hawker 800XP: N838BB, Hawker 800XP: N552ME, Hawker800XP: N749WW, Hawker800XP:ZS-EXG, CL604-D-ANGB, CL604-T7-NMN, CL601-N580KR, and Gulfstream 200-N100EK.

Other airlines whose aircraft are affected by the audit include CL604-N605JA operated by Jedidiah Air, CL604-N880ET operated by OmniBlu, CL604-N604WL operated by West Link Airlines, G.IV-N990EA operated by NestOil, CL601-N253LA operated by West Link Airlines, G1159A-N313MS operated by Izy Air and CL604-G-FABO operated by Jet Support Services.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.

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