South Pacific Helicopters in October of 2016 as a tourism company, with a focus on whale watching and scenic flights around the area. Unfortunately, a few short weeks later, a major earthquake struck Kaikoura completely cutting off access to the town, and changing the landscape forever. Daniel and the South Pacific employees were invaluable to the recovery and relief effort, working tirelessly on the rebuild to restore access to the town of Kaikoura.

In 2018, the team expanded to own Wings Over Whales, a fixed-wing aircraft operation offering whale watching and scenic flights in Kaikoura too.

Across the two businesses, the team are running a Eurocopter 120 Airbus, and a Eurocopter as350 b3 Squirrel as well as two fixed-wings. All aircrafts have TracPlus supported tracking units installed.