OUR STORY
“I was 19, broke, unemployed and sold my girlfriend’s canopy for drug money… so I thought I better sew her a new one!” What a sentence! What a story. This describes NZ Aerosports’ (now JYRO) humble yet outrageous beginnings, in the words of our founder himself, Paul “Jyro” Martyn.
Our company started with one man with the wildest of spirits and a true blue sky dream. A renegade. In the time that he ran this company, he pushed everything he had to its limits. We miss him – and we always will.
JYRO is the next generation of NZ Aerosports. It honours our founder, of course, because it was the name we all knew him by. But JYRO the re-brand also marks the start of a new chapter. Our next jump. Read about our rebrand to JYRO here…
Founder
PAUL ‘Jyro’ MARTyn
Self-proclaimed omnipotent dictator Jyro was the life and soul of JYRO (previously NZ Aerosports). He was a quirky, eccentric genius, with a scientific eye and an artistic, romantic heart. He passed away in 2017, but his legacy remains at the core of who we are. His motto: don’t fuck up, have a phat time, be the best. We keep pushing hard like Jyro did – because as he would say, there’s fun to be had.