Contract assembly, test and fabrication for aerospace and unmanned-aircraft builders. A fully equipped workshop and an experienced technical crew in Christchurch, five minutes from the airport. Available year-round.
Send us a work packageThe hands-on work that small aerospace companies need done well and can't always staff: low-volume builds from your drawings, to your traveller, with a record of every step.
Airframes, drone platforms and payload modules assembled from your kits and drawings.
Loom build, connector termination, continuity and insulation testing.
Pack assembly, BMS setup, capacity and cycle testing. As service agents for UBCO and FTN Motion, high-voltage systems are everyday work.
Motor, ESC and propeller testing with logged results.
Launch cradles, transport dollies, test stands and fixtures, fabricated in-house.
In-house 3-phase MIG welding facility for aluminium frames, trailers and rigs.
Inspection, servicing and refurbishment of operational UAVs and their support vehicles.
Parts ordering, inventory and freight through the systems that run an 80-machine fleet.
Sheffield Crescent, Burnside. Your engineer is welcome to work alongside the team on site.
We take on contract work year-round. Our largest capacity is available from May to October, and we scale the team for ongoing contracts through the summer.
Our discipline comes from maintaining a large fleet to BMW Motorrad standards, where every job is torqued, checked and signed.
Airframe Works is the contract assembly division of NZBike, New Zealand's first motorcycle rental company, founded in 1987 and based in Christchurch. NZBike runs a fleet of more than 80 late-model machines, maintained in its own workshop by BMW Motorrad-trained technicians, and is the Christchurch service agent for UBCO and FTN Motion, New Zealand's own electric motorcycle makers.
The founder and the workshop manager are both pilots. We know what airworthy means, and we know what it takes on the ground to get there.
Tell us what you're building and what you're short of hands for. One subassembly run, a harness batch, a test rig or a ground-support build is the right size to start with — judge us on the result.