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.
Deutsche Luft Hansa League, a powerful mediaeval trading group). The airline was created by a merger between "Deutscher Aero Lloyd" (an airline formed in 1923 out of the earlier airline DLR or Deutsche Luft-Reederei by AEG, Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and Dornier as a co-operation between the shipping companies "Norddeutscher Lloyd" and Hamburg America Line) and "Junkers Luftverkehr", the in-house airline of Junkers. This action was taken due to an initiative of the German government which hoped to reduce the amount of financial support it provided to the two partly state-owned airlines, which were both plagued by heavy debts at that time.The stylised flying crane