TSS Aviation Inc history

Under a design study contract, BAC proposed the Bristol type 198, a slender delta aircraft similar in configuration to that which Bristol - merged in the newly formed BAC in 1960 - had made for its feasibility study.

Later in 1961, BAC and Sud-Aviation each put in proposals for long-range and medium-range aircraft, but these still showed the differences in the approach to key design problems.

By the Farnborough Air Show in September, 1962, agreement was so close that a model of the proposed aircraft was shown on the BAC stand.

One Sunday afternoon in January, 1963, the suggestion that the aircraft should be called "Concorde" emerged from an informal family conference in the home of a BAC executive.

But at the roll-out of the first Con corde prototype at Toulouse in December, 1967, Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn, then British Minister of Technology, finally resolved what he described as the only disagreement with France that had occurred during the years of co-operation on the project.

When Servanty died in 1973, soon after 02 had made the first Concorde non-stop crossing of the North Atlantic, Bill Strang wrote in Flight International:

1992 Avialeasing Aviation Company established in Uzbekistan, The first IL-76 and Mi-8 helicopters joined our fleet

1993 Registration of Aviation Trading & Leasing company (USA) - the first foreign member of the Group

1995 TSS Aviation Ltd has been established as asset management unit for the Group Transcontinental Freight Forwarding and Logistics Company established in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as multimodal transportation provider for the Group.

1996 Avialeasing awards Air Operator Certificate from Civil Aviation Authorities of Uzbekistan

1997 Scheduled flights Tashkent-Frankfurt-Tashkent has been launched, using Ilyushin-76TD freighter

1998 Office of the Group in Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan, has been inaugurated.

1999 Regular Charters Luxembourg - Baku - Tashkent launched with co-operation with Azal Air Cargo, Azerbaijan Avialeasing awarded Foreign Operator Certificate with Fifth Freedom Air Cargo Authority from Department of Transportation, United States.