New PowerChutes explained

New PowerChutes (Pty) Ltd
Type:Proprietary company
Fate:Out of business
Foundation:2001
Defunct:2006
Hq Location City:Alberton, Gauteng (Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality)
Hq Location Country:South Africa
Key People:Managing Director: Tim Stiff
Industry:Aerospace
Products:Powered parachutes

New PowerChutes (Pty) Ltd (also called New Powerchutes) was a South African aircraft manufacturer based in Alberton, Gauteng. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.[1]

The company seems to have been founded about 2001 and gone out of business in 2006. The Managing Director was Tim Stiff. The company was a proprietary company under South African law.[2]

The company produced the New PowerChutes Gemini, a two-seat powered parachute design.[1]

Aircraft

+ align=center style="background:#BFD7FF"Summary of aircraft built by New PowerChutes
Model nameFirst flightNumber builtType
New PowerChutes Gemini2001two-seat powered parachute

External links

Notes and References

  1. Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 83. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
  2. Web site: PowerChute SA . Internet Archive Wayback Machine . 12 July 2015.