Calipt'Air

Calipt'Air

Calipt'Air

Aircraft manufacturer based in Spiez, Switzerland

Calipt'Air AG was a Swiss aircraft manufacturer based in Spiez. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paragliders and also produced a line of emergency parachutes.[1]

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The company name comes from Ancient Greek. Kalos means beautiful and pteryx means wing.[2]

The company was founded in December 1997 and went out of business in 2005. A memorial website for the company was created in 2009, but was later taken down from the internet.[3][2][4]

Calipt'Air was an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation limited by share ownership.[5]

The company produced a range of paragliders, including the Calipt'Air Serenis intermediate glider, the Calipt'Air Vectis performance intermediate and competition wing and the Calipt'Air Walabis Bi for the tandem flight training role. It also made the SOS line of emergencies parachutes.[1][4]

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by Calipt'Air:

References

  1. [1]
    Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 14. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
  2. [2]
    "Caliptair". caliptair.com. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Calipt'Air". Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Calipt'air main page (english)". caliptair.com. Archived from the original on 5 April 2002. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  5. [5]
    "Calipt'air - about us (english)". caliptair.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2002. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
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