Chairman and Founding father of Precision Air Mr. Michael Shirima handed away final weekend on the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

His household confirmed his dying and mentioned that the main aviation business knowledgeable in Tanzania had handed away and will probably be laid to everlasting relaxation this week at his household house in Kilimanjaro area in northern Tanzania.

The household described Mr. Shirima as “an inspiration and a frontrunner to many,” promising to “without end cherish his life.”

Mr. Shirima was a Tanzania businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He was the Founder and Chairman of Precision Air, Tanzania’s solely personal airline.

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan despatched a condolence message and described Mr. Shirima as an important particular person in Tanzania’s airline enterprise and different social capabilities.

Precision Air Companies administration confirmed its chairman’s dying by way of public info on Saturday afternoon.

Mr. Shirima based Precision Air in 1993, with a twin-engine 5-seater airplane, a Piper Aztec.

Precision Air was integrated in Tanzania in January 1991 as a personal airline and began operations in 1993. At first, it operated as a personal constitution air transport firm, however in November 1993, it modified to supply scheduled flight providers to serve the rising vacationer market in Tanzania. The airline then prolonged its wings to most cities in Tanzania and different components in East Africa together with Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. 

Working as the primary and aggressive personal airline in Tanzania, Precision Air managed to dominate Tanzania skies till now, competing with large and state-owned airways over the East African skies.

Precision Air began its air providers in Arusha metropolis by offering constitution planes to fly vacationers visiting Northern wildlife parks together with Serengeti Nationwide Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Space with different constitution providers to Zanzibar.

In 2006, Precision Air grew to become the primary Tanzanian airline to move the IATA Operational Security Audit.

Development of buyer numbers then attracted the airline to accumulate extra plane after which launched scheduled flights throughout Tanzania, then Nairobi. In 2003, Kenya Airways acquired 49% shareholding in Precision Air for a money sum of US$2 million.

The Late Mr. Shirima spoke to eTN on June 15, 2012, then gave an insightful story about aviation and air transport in Africa with challenges going through the African skies. He instructed eTN that Precision Air was preceded by a crop-dusting firm that was fashioned late in 1986 and when a persistent drought occurred in Tanzania within the early Nineteen Nineties rendering crop dusting with out sufficient work, an concept to determine a constitution firm was actualized, and therefore, the grew to become the formation of the airline Precision Air.

“This was financed by me from the proceeds of a espresso export enterprise I had been engaged in since [the] early Nineteen Eighties and partnering with a newly-formed Tanzania Enterprise Capital Fund at 66% and 33% respectively. That fund was purchased out by Kenya Airways in 2003,” he as soon as instructed eTN.

“Worldwide airways are in joint ventures, partnerships, buyouts, and alliances. Those that stand alone don’t exist anymore, and the place they do, they’re weak. I wished Precision Air to live on and be a world-recognized participant,” he as soon as mentioned.