While Gunggandji Aerospace lays claim as Australia's first and only 100 per cent Aboriginal-owned company in the sector, it's a mantle managing director Daniel Joinbee aims to one day share - by inspiring Indigenous students.

In July, the enterprise announced plans for their Raising Horizons program - a chance to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander schoolkids "hands-on experience and direct engagement with the aviation industry".

Operating out of Townsville, the initiative involves plans to reach 29 regional and remote communities across northern Queensland, including the Torres Strait with particular focus on, but not limited to, opening doors for female students.

"Raising Horizons is all about literally raising the horizons of our young students to get them interested in aviation," Mr Joinbee said.

"My whole philosophy is that it takes more than two pilots to fly a plane...so we want to expose these students to strategy and operations, air traffic control, ground operations - how do we actually bring out all of the supporting and enabling functions that happens at an aerodrome every single day, and let these kids experience that."

At the launch last week, the Gunggandji man said his company was born out of his "bias for action" cultivated across 14 years with the Royal Australian Air Force as an air traffic controller, and identifying a sector he could pioneer.

"When I ended up out in the consulting world I identified that there were no Aboriginal enterprises engaged in aerospace. I said 'that is something that I can do. I'm uniquely qualified to be in that space, to be actually making a difference for our mob,'" he said.

"From the get go, it was all about, how do we give back? How can we actually do something that's different? So with some of our partners that will be working with us on this program, we've actually created the idea and the concept of non-traditional pathways."

North Queensland Cowboys have come on board through their club charity arm, with backing from the federal government.

Students from NRL Cowboys House, a culturally-safe boarding facility for First Nations men and women at partner schools in Townsville-ran as a joint initiative between the club, league and state and federal governments, are among the first cohort to take part in Raising Horizons.

"They've got relationships with nine schools, and we felt that this was the right partner to establish our pilot with, because they have the connections. They've got the established relationships with the kids, and can create a safe environment for us to work with the kids, to take them out of their comfort zone and actually be open to them to the concept of aviation," Mr Joinbee said.

Like himself, Kunjurra Yeatman-Noble hails from Yarrabah, a community just east of Cairns.

"I think it's a big opportunity for young women that are interested in aviation...it's so cool (for) them to bring a helicopter here," she said.

Ms Yeatman-Noble had already completed an aviation course at school, with biology, biomedicine, ecology and marine science all options she's interested in pursuing.

"Just looking at these young kids going, how can I get you guys engaged? How can I bring you up and follow in my footsteps about what we're doing and where we're going, because you can do anything," Mr Joinbee said of the students there on the day.

Cowboys Community Foundation chief executive officer Fiona Pelling said they were "blessed" to have kids in the first crop engaging with the initiative.

"It's probably a career pathway that they don't often think about, and when we do think about it, it's usually we're thinking about pilots and flight attendants, but this is all about presenting all of the other career opportunities that are out there," she said.

Ms Pelling added "education for purpose" is central to NRL Cowboys House.

"If these young people are going to leave their homes to come here and they're going to complete their secondary education then it's a really big responsibility of ours to ensure that that converts into something that is meaningful for them and that we continue to support them on that journey."

"So, this is a really big part of being able to do that and show them what that education can translate into."

Mr Joinbee said when he looks at the kids he sees the next generation of leaders and opportunities for other Aboriginal-owned businesses to join his in the sector.

"I want to plant that seed and inspire them, that they can do anything they that they put their mind to".