Polish business aviation operator General Aviation Services has a fleet of Bell 407, Bell 427 and Beechcraft B300, all available year-round for their owners, and – when not used by owners – offered for commercial operations under its AOC. The main base of the company is Goraszka, some 15km east of Warsaw, and Warsaw Okecie Airport (Frederic Chopin), from where the Beechcraft B300 operates.

It also has one Antonov AN-2 and one EADS/PZL 104 Wilga on its AOC, and for most of the year these two aircraft are placed in long-term storage in Goraszka. But through the summer the company has an interesting sideline activity, and from late June until the end of August the two aircraft fly out of Jastarnia in the Hel Peninsula for sightseeing flights.

The name of this sandy 35km long peninsula comes from the city of Hel, located at its very end. Historically, that area used to be a strategic military base during World War Second. Nowadays, many memorials from that era exist visited by thousands of tourist every summer.

GAS reports that the peninsula also offers beautiful sandy beaches, good food (fish delivered freshly from fishing vessels), lot of coffee corners, music places and sightseeing flights.

Jastarnia airfield is an uncontrolled area seasonally occupied for landings and departures of small aircraft. It has a 600m grass runway, a small building serving as a sales office, control tower and a rest area for the staff, as well as small technical area with spare parts and tools. "There is no hangar there, so maintenance is performed outside and is limited to preflight checks, defect rectification and line maintenance up to 50 hour checks," says the company's Sebastian Kulik.