Aboriginal Air Services was an umbrella company

Umbrella company

An umbrella company is a company that acts as an employer to agency contractors who work under a fixed term contract assignment, usually through a recruitment employment agency in the United Kingdom. Recruitment agencies issue contracts to a limited company as the agency liability would be reduced...

 of 4 distinct airlines owned by the Aboriginal

Australian Aborigines

Australian Aborigines , also called Aboriginal Australians, from the latin ab originem , are people who are indigenous to most of the Australian continentthat is, to mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania...

 people of Australia

Australia

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. The four companies gradually came together as a consortium over the nearly twenty years 20 years. These four separately owned entities have come together over the past 20 years to form this consortium, now known as Aboriginal Air Services. This service is fully owned by the Aboriginal people.

The consortium is no longer operating.

Airlines

• Ngaanyatjarra Airfor Western Australia (Western Australia
  Western Australia
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  )
• Ngurrajuta Air (Northern Territories
  Northern Territories
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  )
• Janami Air (Northern Territories
  Northern Territories
  Northern Territories may refer to several geographic locations:, a term used by the Japanese to refer to the territory disputed with Russia. See Kuril Islands dispute...
  
  , from the Warlpiri
  Warlpiri
  The Warlpiri are a group of Indigenous Australians, many of whom speak the Warlpiri language. There are 5,000–6,000 Warlpiri, living mostly in a few towns and settlements scattered through their traditional land in Australia's Northern Territory, north and west of Alice Springs...
  
   tribe)
• PY Air (Southern Territories)