WE MAKE AIR LOGISTICS SIMPLE.
Cirrus Intelligence is an aviation logistics and operations management firm. We support public and private organizations by planning, operating, and optimizing their air transport and remote aerodromes.
Our Capabilities
Operations Management
Operations Management
We manage and run private remote aerodromes, maintaining Transport Canada certificate compliance.
Explore Operations Management →Air Logistics Management
Air Logistics Management
We engineer FIFO flight networks, run payload optimization modeling, and lower seat costs.
Explore Air Logistics →Air Charter & Brokering
Air Charter & Brokering
We secure aircraft for runway limits and negotiate terms to remove empty-leg waste.
Explore Air Charter →Full-Cycle Mine Support
Full-Cycle Mine Support
We protect project economics from scoping runway designs to end-of-life reverse logistics.
Explore Full-Cycle Support →Airport Planning
Airport Planning
We design gravel strip specifications, lighting configs, and obstacle clearance profiles.
Explore Airport Planning →Training & Competency Development
Training & Competency
We build self-sufficient ground teams for de-icing, refueling, and Transport Canada regulations.
Explore Training & Competency →Select Your Operational Status
Prospecting & Exploration
We map out your initial aviation corridors so speculative ground-access challenges don’t wreck your project timeline. Lower early-stage capital risk by building safe, compliant, and scalable air access before permanent roads exist.
Explore Exploration Phase →Core Services
Runway Viability & Soil Analysis
We run Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) testing and calculate California Bearing Ratio (CBR) values on-site. This verifies if raw, unpaved ground can handle the tire pressures and footprint of utility aircraft (Twin Otters, Dash 8s, ATRs) without rutting.
You avoid building a strip that swallows your gear or forces payload restrictions due to a soft subgrade.
Exploratory Scoping & Desktop Studies
Using GIS data, we map out Obstacle Limitation Surfaces (OLS) and analyze historical weather data (wind shear, visibility, icing ceilings). We build AACE Class 5 capital cost estimates covering earthworks, drainage, and basic nav-aids matched to your timeline.
Gives your exploration directors defensible, data-backed aviation CAPEX/OPEX numbers to pass stage-gate approvals and secure funding.
Agile Charter Contracts & ACMI
We set up flexible ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance, Insurance) or hybrid short-term leases. Our models let you swap asset classes on the fly—like shifting from a light helicopter for soil sampling to a turboprop freighter for camp mobilization.
You aren't locked into expensive, fixed aviation overhead during seasonal shutdowns or drilling pauses.
Development & Production
We tighten your inbound air supply chain and maximize payload efficiency to insulate your production schedule from remote logistics shocks. Run a zero-downtime, high-volume supply chain for heavy machinery, parts, consumables, and crew shifts.
Explore Production Phase →Core Services
Sustaining Capital Airbridges
We build dedicated, high-frequency cargo lifelines using regional and mainline freighters (B737F, ATR 72F). Flights are scheduled around your mill maintenance windows to hot-shot critical parts, liner replacements, and specialized tooling exactly when needed.
Cuts down your Days of Inventory Held (DOIH) and protects you from multi-million-dollar unplanned mill shutdowns.
Dangerous Goods (DG) Air Freight
End-to-end logistics for Class 1 through Class 9 Dangerous Goods—including large-scale lithium-ion battery banks, process chemicals, and explosives. We manage full compliance under IATA and TDG standards, covering custom tie-down calculations and aircraft segregation.
Eliminates regulatory hold-ups at the gate, ensuring high-risk production inputs arrive on site without carrier rejections.
FIFO Hub & Network Optimization
We model your shift patterns against origin-destination data to pick the most efficient marshalling airports. We engineer turnkey FIFO charter networks using regional turboprops or jets, integrating digital manifesting and Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS).
Lowers your cost-per-seat, reduces worker turnover by cutting out travel friction, and keeps your shifts fully staffed.
Training & Airport Management
We inject professional aviation protocols and technical training into your operation, turning a remote strip into an elite, fully compliant hub. Bring remote aerodrome operations up to international aviation standards while building strong, compliant on-site capabilities.
Explore Management Phase →Core Services
TP312 & ICAO Compliance Auditing
Regular infrastructure audits against Transport Canada TP312 (5th Edition) and ICAO Annex 14 rules. This includes continuous runway friction testing, PAPI/VASIS light calibrations, obstacle clearance surveys, and setting up Wildlife Control Management Plans.
Shields your operation from massive liability, prevents sudden regulatory closures, and keeps your site insurable under standard corporate policies.
Ground Ops & Handling Training
Hands-on, site-specific training for local crews covering aircraft marshalling, ramp safety, weight and balance calculations, and into-plane refueling quality control (Jet A-1 and Avgas filtration monitoring under API/EI 1581 standards).
Builds a self-sustaining local workforce that satisfies indigenous and local employment mandates while maintaining a zero-accident ramp environment.
SMS & Emergency Response Design
We author custom, proactive Safety Management Systems (SMS) with clear hazard reporting loops. Alongside that, we build remote-ready Emergency Response Plans (ERP) detailing protocols for ARFF, MEDEVAC air-ambulance triage, and communications-blackouts.
Removes the chaos from critical incidents, ensuring life-saving actions happen flawlessly and everything is documented to protect your company.
Global Air Logistics
We close the visibility gap between global factories and your final remote mile so you always know where your cargo is. Coordinate tier-1 global supply chains, linking international manufacturers directly to your remote airstrip.
Explore Logistics Phase →Core Services
End-to-End Freight Forwarding
Custom tracking links that tie international maritime or mainline air freight directly into your local charter flights. We manage export paperwork, local customs brokerage, and cross-docking at major hubs to prioritize hot items based on live site inventory.
Prevents critical parts from getting stuck at international transshipment hubs and gives your teams real-time ETAs.
Outsized & Project Cargo Charters
Technical project management for massive, one-piece components like mill drive shafts, excavator pieces, or SAG mill parts. We handle aircraft floor-load math, center-of-gravity (CG) balancing, custom shoring design, and crane-to-aircraft coordination.
Gives your engineering teams the freedom to source the best machinery worldwide, knowing physical size limits won't derail the build schedule.
Fuel & Bulk Consumables Security
Bulk fuel airlift programs for sites without seasonal ice roads. This involves deploying specialized bulk aviation fuel bladders or certified roll-on/roll-off tank containers, optimizing payload weight distributions, and ensuring full environmental containment.
Secures the main power and fleet fuel supply for your entire remote camp, preventing catastrophic power failures or fleet immobilization.
Closure & Remediation
We manage the reverse logistics pipeline, turning closure liabilities into recaptured value while ensuring a clean legal exit. Execute asset recovery and environmental remediation that satisfies closure mandates while recovering as much capital as possible.
Explore Closure Phase →Core Services
Decommissioning Reverse Logistics
Systematic draw-down of aviation assets as the mine winds down. We set up flight matrices to haul out heavy equipment components, processing gear, hazardous materials, and scrap, downsizing aircraft profiles step-by-step as site infrastructure shrinks.
Minimizes tail-end closure costs by scaling down air capacity in lockstep with remaining site tonnage—no paying for empty return flights.
Remediation Airlift Support
Tight logistics schedules for transporting contaminated soil samples, monitoring gear, and water treatment chemicals. We establish high-frequency, light-aircraft airbridges to ensure sensitive samples reach certified labs within strict holding-time windows.
Guarantees you meet strict environmental closure covenants, avoiding regulatory fines or delays in getting your security bonds returned.
Aerodrome Repurposing & Divestment
Technical and economic feasibility studies for the airstrip's next phase (converting it to a public regional hub, an ecotourism base, or archiving it as a certified "cold status" emergency strip). We map out the asset transfer frameworks and liability handovers.
Converts a pure closure liability into a positive legacy asset for local communities, or provides a clean, permanent legal exit that unloads long-term infrastructure liability.
Three decades of operations, in the places where they actually happen.
