Air Sylphe Explained

Air Sylphe
Type:Privately held company
Defunct:circa late 2007
Hq Location Country:France
Industry:Aerospace
Products:Powered parachutes

Air Sylphe was a French aircraft manufacturer based in Villereau, Nord. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles and the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight categories.[1]

The company seems to have gone out of business in the end of 2007.[2]

The company built a line of single and two-seat powered parachutes, all using industrial ducted fans for propellers. Their designs included the single seat Air Sylphe 447 and the two-seat Air Sylphe Bi 582, which was noted as being produced in a special version for wheelchair aviators.[1]

Aircraft

+ align=center style="background:#BFD7FF"Summary of aircraft built by Air Sylphe
Model nameFirst flightNumber builtType
Air Sylphe 4472000ssingle-seat powered parachute
Air Sylphe Bi 5822004two-seat powered parachute

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Notes and References

  1. Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 79. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
  2. Web site: Air Sylphe . 26 May 2015 . Air Sylphe . 2 February 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070625165308/http://www.air-sylphe.com/ . 25 June 2007 . dead.