Air Tchad, or Air Chad, was a Chadian airline that operated domestic and regional services, as well as charter flights to neighbouring countries in Central and West Africa and charter cargo services to France, Italy and Saudi Arabia.
[4] The company was formed on 24 June 1966 (1966-06-24), with the government of Chad initially having two thirds of the shares and UTA holding the balance.
[6] Operations started on 4 August the same year,[5] replacing services formerly provided by Air Afrique.
[5] Flown with one Baron, one Cherokee Six, two DC-3s and one DC-4, at March 1975 (1975-03) Air Tchad operated a domestic route network that included Abecher, Abou Deia, Am Timan, Ati, Bokoro, Bol, Bongor, Faya Largeau, Fort Archambault, Mongo, Moundou, Ndjamena, Oum Hadjer and Pala, along with an international flight to Geneina in Sudan.
[7] Ten years later, the domestic route network had reduced to include Abecher, Mongo, Moundou, Ndjamena, and Sarh, with flights to Bangui in the Central African Republic and Geneina also undertaken; a single Fokker F27-500 served the entire network.