CSE Citation Centre's origins can be traced back to IDS Aircraft Limited, a charter operator who purchased the first UK registered Cessna Citation in 1974. By 1979 with a fleet of five Cessna Citations IDS formed an in house engineering facility at Bournemouth Airport in the South of England to support it’s growing fleet of Cessna Citation Business jets that were operating around Europe. Third party Cessna Citation operators soon became aware of the engineering skills IDS had built up maintaining it’s own fleet, leading to expansion of the maintenance facility, taking in third party aircraft maintenance