Phoenix Aviation of Kenya, jointly with investment company Frontier Services Group (FSG) Limited, has completed a US$ 14 million deal which sees FSG acquire 49 per cent of the operator.

Despite initial concerns from some corners of the industry about the safety and reliability of a lone engine, the single engine turboprop (SET) has enjoyed a remarkable uptake globally since its inception two decades ago.

Phoenix Aviation, based in Nairobi, Kenya, will use one of its Cessna Caravans as the 'chase plane' to follow Tracey Curtis-Taylor in her Boeing Stearman biplane on a solo journey from Cape Town, South Africa, to Goodwood, UK, to commemorate the same journey carried out 85 years earlier by pilot Lady Heath.