New PowerChutes

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New PowerChutes (Pty) Ltd
Company typeProprietary company
IndustryAerospace
Founded2001
Defunct2006
FateOut of business
Headquarters,
Key people
Managing Director: Tim Stiff
ProductsPowered 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

Summary of aircraft built by New PowerChutes
Model name First flight Number built Type
New PowerChutes Gemini 2001 two-seat powered parachute

References

  1. ^ a b Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 83. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
  2. ^ "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". archive.org. Retrieved 12 July 2015. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)

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