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Queensland’s
Aerial Crane

Loads placed where cranes can’t reach. Rooftops, ridgelines, islands — anywhere in Queensland.

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1,000kghook4,000kgheavy liftStatewide response
CH.01 · No road to it
SITETERRAIN — NO ACCESS

The road stops. The load doesn’t.

A ridgeline switchboard four kilometres past the last hardstand. No crane pad, no approach, no way to walk a load in.

Access road
0.0km
Nearest hardstand
4.2km
Crane setup
N/A
CH.02 · Who's done it

The people who have already done it.

18

Crew

Pilots, load masters, riggers

42,800

Flight hours

Logged across the group

6

Aircraft

Light utility to heavy lift

21

Years operating

Continuous QLD operations

Operated by

Parker Aero

CASA Part 138 aerial work operator. Every lift flown under a documented lift plan and a named load master.

CH.03 · The plan

The plan unfurls before anything leaves the ground.

Four sheets. Signed off before the rotor turns.

01/04

Swipe the sheets

SHEET LP-01REV 02

Load calculation

Gross load
1,180 kg
Rigging allowance
64 kg
Hook limit (H125)
1,000 kg
Selected aircraft
BLACK HAWK
Margin at hook
68 %

Load + rigging exceeds the light hook. Heavy lift selected.

SHEET LP-02REV 02

Rigging

Long line
45 m
Sling set
4 leg · 2 t
Tag lines
2 × 30 m
Remote hook
ELEC · DUAL
Proof tested
2026-05-14

Tag lines crewed at both ends for orientation on set-down.

SHEET LP-03REV 02

Exclusion zone

Radius
45 m
Personnel inside
3
Ground marshals
2
Public interface
NIL
Comms
VHF 123.45

Zone swept and confirmed clear before each lift cycle.

SHEET LP-04REV 02

Flight path

Pickup
S 27.481 E 152.994
Set down
S 27.470 E 153.021
Cycle time
6.5 min
Cycles
4
Fuel state min.
35 min

Approach into wind, escape route to the open reserve at all times.

CH.04 · The window

Same load. Two windows.

Same load, same scale

Ground crane3 DAYS
Helicopter90 MIN

The helicopter bar is 2% of the crane bar. That is the whole argument.

Ground crane

FULL SCALE 3 DAYS
  • Permit15.0 h
  • Traffic management plan10.0 h
  • Mobilise12.0 h
  • Assemble15.0 h
  • Lift4.0 h
  • Dismantle16.0 h

Helicopter

FULL SCALE 90 MIN
  • Site brief15 min
  • Mobilise20 min
  • Lift40 min
  • Clear15 min

Hours saved71

We plan for the weather you can’t control.

CH.05 · The lift

Ninety minutes, start to hook-off.

Altitude
320ft AGL
Load
1,180kg
Elapsed
90:00mm:ss
CH.06 · The morning after

By morning it is just a record.

One sheet, filed. This is what the client keeps.

Project numberPA-2614
The constraintNo access road · 4.2 km past hardstand
AircraftBLACK HAWK · UH-60
Load weight1,180 kg
Time on site1.5 hrs
Crane alternative3 days · $41,500 – $55,500
Road closures0

Lift completed under a documented plan, signed by the pilot in command and the load master. Figures as flown.

CH.07 · Your lift

That was ours. Tell us about yours.

Use the lift calculator below to check whether your load can be flown, which aircraft carries it, and roughly what it costs.

Lift calculator
05 questions · ~30 sec · no contact details

Answer 5 questions. Find out if your lift flies — and what it costs.

Enter the load, the weight, the region and the site access. The instruments on the right update live, and you get a written estimate you can download.

  1. 01Can it be flownfeasibility verdict
  2. 02Which aircrafthook capacity match
  3. 03What it costsindicative $ range
Start below — question 01 of 05

Question 01 of 05— What are you lifting?

20% complete

Question 1 of 5: What are you lifting?

What are you lifting?

Payload vs hook

AT 20 m
Airbus H125EXCEEDS HOOK
900 kg / 863 kg
Black Hawk24% OF HOOK
900 kg / 3,699 kg

Airbus H125

Hook 1,000 kg

GO

90% of hookRecommended

Black Hawk

Hook 4,000 kg

GO

23% of hook

Your result — pending
  • Feasibility— — —
  • Recommended aircraft— — —
  • Indicative price range— — —

Answer all 05 questions to release the readout.

What we lift

If it can be rigged, it can be flown.

1,800 kg

HVAC & rooftop plant

Chillers, AHUs, cooling towers

3,400 kg

Structural steel

Trusses, beams, bridge sections

1,200 kg

Spas & pools

Over houses, into courtyards

900 kg

Power poles & utility

Transmission, distribution, stringing

4,000 kg

Tanks & tower sections

Water, comms, antenna arrays

2,600 kg

Remote area logistics

Islands, ridgelines, mine sites

Where we operate

Every corner of Queensland.

Tap or hover a region

Mobilisation—

Jobs flown—

Service radius—

Fleet

Hook capacity, in order.

Hook

1,000kg

Airbus H125

Precision placement · long line

Hook

1,200kg

Bell 407

Utility lift · crew transfer

Hook

4,000kg

Black Hawk UH-60

Heavy lift · remote logistics

Full fleet detail →

Proof

Flown for the people who cannot afford a bad day.

Hutchinson

Energy Queensland

BMD Group

Telstra

Sunwater

Downer

ISO 9001

CERT 0000-QMS

ISO 45001

CERT 0000-OHS

CASA Part 138

AOC 0000-138

Two chillers on a live CBD roof with no street closure. The crew had it planned to the minute and we never stopped trading.

Daniel Reece

Hutchinson Builders

Adelaide St plant replacement

Forty-two poles into country a crane could not reach. Four days of flying replaced what would have been a month of access works.

Marcus Hale

Energy Queensland

Western feeder rebuild

They told us what would not fly before we spent a dollar on it. That honesty is why we keep calling them.

Priya Nair

Sunwater

Ridge intake tank install

The handoff

Tell us what needs lifting.

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Site brief to indicative pricing inside 24 hours, anywhere in Queensland.