History

TADS has a successful history of receiving and executing Aerospace/Defense services contracts many of which are considered to be ground-breaking “firsts”:

• July 2002 – TADS is the first commercial company to provide Tactical Fighter support to the Royal Canadian Air Force. TADS began a program flying Hawker Hunter and A-4 Skyhawk fighter aircraft as adversary bandits in training Air Combat Maneuvers and Electronic Counter Measure training, similar as to the TopGun School that the U.S. Navy provides to U.S. pilots.
• June 2003 – TADS is the first commercial company to be given approval from the U.S. Department of State and SAF/IA (Secretary of the Air Force-International Affairs) to provide a first test-trial of F-16 Operational Detachment Support Training for Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) pilots and ground maintenance crews.
• January 2004 – Second test-trial approved by the U.S. Department of State and SAF/IA for TADS to provide F-16 Operational Detachment Support Training for RNLAF pilots and ground maintenance crews, which 3-month training exercise was unprecedented as it was the longest period that the RNLAF had conducted this type of training within the United States.
• May 2005 through 2007 – Aerogroup is awarded and executes a contract from the United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF) via the Savannah Combat Readiness Training Center (CRTC), to provide ground handling and maintenance support for UK –AWACS aircraft at CRTC-Savannah, Shaw AFB, and the Beaufort, S.C. USMC base.
• January 2007 – is contracted through U.S. Army-RDECOM/CASU to provide pilot training and other aircraft services.
• December 2007 – TADS executes an exclusive lease arrangement to lease the only Soviet ILyushin IL-78 Super-Tanker aircraft available in the U.S.
• March 2008 through January 2009 – TADS provides F-16 pilot training to the Belgian Air Force at the Kleine-Brogel Air Base in Belgium via a contract awarded through U.S. Air Force – Air Education and Training Command (AETC).
• July 2009 – TADS is awarded a commercial contract to deploy its ILyushin IL-78 Super-Tanker aircraft to the Middle-East to provide Air-to-Air Refueling research and development services.