GippsAero is locally owned by the Morgan family, who first started manufacturing aircraft over 30 years ago. Dave Morgan is the Chief Operations Officer and following in the footsteps of co-founders – father George Morgan and Peter Furlong.
The business now delivers high quality, reliable aircraft to clients across Australia and around the world.
“In about 1995, the aerial agriculture slowed down with less herbicides, farms getting smaller, and customers starting to use tractors more. For our class of aircraft, we found the production rate slowed down so we looked to fill a market gap and niche that was worldwide. That became the GA8 Airvan. The team have sold 263 Airvan’s worldwide, in 43 different countries.”
Now the company offers the GA200, a crop-dusting aircraft, the GA8, an eight seat utility aircraft and the GA10 which is a 10-seat version of the GA8.
“One of the key advantages of operating our business in Latrobe City is the industries that we have around us have such a diverse array of capabilities and operations, so if we find ourselves short on staff or an area of expertise, we can always call on someone locally to fill those gaps,” said Dave.
“Latrobe city is a good place for business investment due to the support that it has around, not only with local Council but also with the businesses that operate within Latrobe City.”