Aviation · Platform & CMS
Westwind Aviation
Sixty years of operations, finally on one platform.
About the project
A charter, medevac, cargo, and maintenance operator based at Wilson Airport, Nairobi—rebuilt as a content-managed platform its own team runs day to day.
View live projectWestwind Aviation has flown since 1962 and had almost none of it online. The brief was not a brochure site: it was a system that could hold a fleet, a route network, six service lines, and a company's history, and stay current without a developer in the loop.
- Client
- Westwind Aviation Limited
- Status
- Live platform
- Role
- Product design & full-stack development
- Services
- UX/UI · Full-stack development · CMS architecture · Motion design
- Industry
- Aviation & air charter
- Platform
- Next.js · Supabase
Real aircraft, real airstrips, no stock photography
Charter marketing tends toward the generic: a rented jet on an empty runway, a glass of champagne. Westwind's actual advantage is more specific—a Wilken Group company operating out of Wilson Airport since 1962, flying King Airs and a helicopter into places most operators will not go.
So the site is built almost entirely from the operator's own photography: their aircraft, their cabins, their crews, their strips. The interface stays deliberately quiet around it—a deep aviation blue, generous type, and motion that settles rather than performs.
A route network you can actually look at
"Africa, Europe and the Middle East" is a claim; a map is evidence. Destinations are drawn on a custom interactive map of the continent, with route lines running out from Nairobi and tooltips that name each place as you move across it—then open into full destination pages with their own imagery, requirements, and booking route.
The same set of aircraft has to serve both ends of that network: a VIP cabin into a capital, and a fixed-gear approach onto a grass strip. Presenting the fleet honestly—three King Air B200s and an AS350 helicopter, with real specifications—matters more here than making four aircraft look like forty.
Six businesses under one roof
Westwind is not only a charter operator. It is an Approved Maintenance Organisation, a medevac provider, a humanitarian and special-missions contractor, a cargo carrier, and an aircraft management company—and each of those speaks to a different buyer with a different urgency.
Rather than flatten them into a services grid, each line gets its own numbered chapter on the homepage and its own route, so a hospital coordinator looking for medevac and an owner looking for management both find a page written for them. Maintenance gets a full page of its own, since it is the one service sold to other operators.
The site the team edits on the page itself
Everything behind the front end runs on a Supabase-backed CMS with its own schema and row-level security: fleet, team, gallery, destinations, testimonials, FAQs, careers, legal pages, bookings, and site settings—plus users and roles, so access matches the org.
The editing model is the unusual part. Instead of a separate form for every block, admins open the real page in an editor and change it in place—text, images, links, and icons, with a picker for internal routes, external URLs, anchors, email, and phone. Adding an aircraft, a destination, or a new page is now a content task, and the fleet page falls back to its static data if the database is ever unreachable.
The impact
A sixty-year-old operator with a platform that keeps up.
Westwind now presents its fleet, network, and full range of services through one system—and maintains all of it in-house. What used to require a developer for a copy change is now a click on the page itself.
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