A/S Aero A/S Aero A/S Aero was a Norwegian airline company founded by Tancred Ibsen in January 1920. The company was financed by Tancred Ibsen's uncle, businessman Einar Bjørnson, and two shipowners. Despite the "A/S" (for private company limited by shares) in its name, A/S Aero was never formally registered as a limited company. The company purchased one Hansa Brandenburg W.29 and four Friedrichshafen FF.49 aircraft from Germany in February. This deal was probably illegal as the Entente prohibited the export of German surplus aircraft, but Ibsen nevertheless got permission from the Norwegian Ministry of Defence to import the five German aircraft.
Ad Astra Aero large flying boat, Dornier Wal. On 31 December 1930, was the retroactive merger done with "Air Basel AG" (Balair), as per decision of the General Assembly on 17 March 1931. The merger was forced by the Swiss Federal Air Administration due to the bad financial situation and also subsidized Balair, to form a new Swiss airline, Swissair, whose technical director became Walter Mittelholzer. Ad Astra Aero Ad Astra Aero (Latin for "to the stars") was a Swiss airline based at Zürichhorn in Zürich. Initiated by Oskar Bider and Fritz Rihner, in July 1919 the "Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Lufttourismus" (literally: Swiss