Samson Sky signs MoU in Tajikistan to establish pilot training programs and provide flight simulators in country

Sam­son Sky has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with Inter­na­tion­al Devel­op­ment Con­sul­tant Bakhtiy­or Baho­durov, a senior devel­op­ment and pol­i­cy advi­sor with more than two decades of expe­ri­ence across Cen­tral Asia.

The MOU involves Sam­son Sky pro­vid­ing assis­tance to Tajikistan’s gov­ern­ment to improve Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion leg­is­la­tion, enabling Switch­blade Fly­ing Cars to be reg­is­tered and used in the coun­try, and facil­i­tat­ing the sale of 50 Switch­blades, val­ued at $11.5MM USD.

The MOU sign­ing took place dur­ing the “SAMSON SKY – Wel­come to Cen­tral Asia” event in Dushanbe, Tajik­istan’s cap­i­tal city and brought togeth­er senior lead­ers from gov­ern­ment, bank­ing, avi­a­tion and inter­na­tion­al busi­ness. The event was high­light­ed in the news that after­noon by the country’s nation­al broad­cast­er, TV Jahon­namo, which dai­ly attracts 81 per cent of the pop­u­la­tion.

It also includes Sam­son estab­lish­ing pilot train­ing pro­grams, pro­vid­ing access to their advanced flight sim­u­la­tors, train­ing mechan­ics to han­dle any required main­te­nance of the Switch­blade, and sup­ply­ing replace­ment vehi­cle parts.

Sam Bous­field, Founder and CEO of Sam­son Sky, said: “Cen­tral Asia is con­sid­ered as an up-and-com­ing region of the world, and Sam­son is proud to be part of the advance­ments being made in Tajik­istan.

“With more deals in the works, Sam­son Sky is build­ing a net­work to sup­port the roll out of the Switch­blade Fly­ing Car world­wide, includ­ing estab­lish­ing inter­na­tion­al ser­vice cen­ters in the same fash­ion that Cess­na did when they orig­i­nal­ly intro­duced their busi­ness jets.”

Baho­durov is wide­ly rec­og­nized for facil­i­tat­ing high-lev­el cross-sec­tor part­ner­ships between gov­ern­ment insti­tu­tions, inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tions and pri­vate sec­tor investors, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the areas of eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, infra­struc­ture and inno­v­a­tive ini­tia­tives. To-date, he has brought in more than $12MM to Tajik­istan and over $35MM to Kaza­khstan.

As cov­ered in inter­na­tion­al news in Novem­ber 2025, Tajik­istan Pres­i­dent Emo­ma­li Rah­mon vis­it­ed with U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., where they dis­cussed the numer­ous untapped oppor­tu­ni­ties and resources for strength­en­ing and expand­ing trade and eco­nom­ic ties between the two coun­tries, includ­ing the sec­tors of ener­gy, trans­port, sci­ence and mod­ern tech­nolo­gies.

Baho­durov said: “Our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Sam­son Sky reflects a shared vision of expand­ing gen­er­al avi­a­tion, improv­ing region­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty, and open­ing new oppor­tu­ni­ties for tourism and tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion. I believe this part­ner­ship will help posi­tion Tajik­istan as an emerg­ing par­tic­i­pant in the glob­al ecosys­tem of advanced air mobil­i­ty.”

This lat­est deal adds to ear­li­er com­plet­ed agree­ments in Cen­tral Asia and the Mid­dle East, all with the goal to use the Switch­blade Fly­ing Car to boost pri­vate avi­a­tion and enhance tourism.

Anna Greben­shchiko­va, for­mer aer­o­bat­ic pilot, Ambas­sador for Sam­son Sky and recent nom­i­nee for the Top 20 Glob­al Women of Excel­lence 2026 by the Amer­i­can Mul­ti Eth­nic Com­mis­sion, was instru­men­tal in bring­ing these agree­ments about through her mar­ket­ing ini­tia­tives and inter­na­tion­al con­nec­tions.

She also spear­head­ed an MOU with the Sau­di Avi­a­tion Club, which is the offi­cial rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the King­dom of Sau­di Ara­bia in the Fédéra­tion Aéro­nau­tique Inter­na­tionale (FAI), and a broad-reach­ing MOU with AIR Tashkent of Uzbek­istan, a neigh­bor­ing coun­try of Tajik­istan.

Sam­son Sky’s fly­ing car, the Switch­blade, is seen as a valu­able resource to increase trav­el in a coun­try which is cov­ered near­ly 50 per cent by the world’s sec­ond high­est moun­tain range. Tajikistan’s moun­tain ranges pro­vide sig­nif­i­cant trav­el bar­ri­ers but also oppor­tu­ni­ties for Adven­ture Tourism.

The Switch­blade had its suc­cess­ful offi­cial First Flight in Novem­ber 2023 and is described is a hybrid-elec­tric vehi­cle with sports car per­for­mance, accel­er­at­ing from 0–60 mph/97 km/h in five sec­onds. It has a top ground speed of 125 mph/201 km/h and a 160 mph/257 km/h cruise speed.

It has room for two peo­ple and trav­el bags. Using pre­mi­um auto gas, it flies up to 500 miles/805 km at
13,000 ft on a sin­gle tank. For safe­ty and insur­ance, all fly­ing sur­faces are enclosed with­in the vehi­cle while in dri­ving mode. The Switch­blade fits a stan­dard garage and is dri­ven to a near­by air­port using high­ways or local roads. There, it trans­forms from dri­ving to fly­ing mode in three min­utes at the push of a but­ton.