Aerospool, spol sro is a Slovak

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based in

Prievidza Prievidza (; , ) is a city in the western Slovakia. With approximately 46,000 inhabitants it is the second biggest municipality in the Trenčín Region and 11th List of cities and towns in Slovakia, largest city in Slovakia generally. Name The ...

. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of

ultralight Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with aile ...

and

kit aircraft Homebuilt aircraft, also known as amateur-built aircraft or kit planes, are constructed by persons for whom this is not a professional activity. These aircraft may be constructed from "scratch", from plans, or from assembly kits.Armstrong, Kenn ...

in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 22. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485XTacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', pages 22 and 94. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. They also build major components for gliders as well as repairing and re-finishing gliders. The company was founded at the end of 1990 by members of the Aero-club Prievidza. The company is organized as a

spoločnosť s ručením obmedzeným (abbreviation or ; literal translation: “company with limited liability”) is a Slovak law business entity, the legal structure for a private limited liability company. It is the rough equivalent of United States LLC and United Kingdom ...

, a Slovak

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History

The company's first product was the

fuselage The fuselage (; from the French language, French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds Aircrew, crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an Aircraft engine, engine as wel ...

for the WT3 glider. The company then branched into making hand-laid-up

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transport trailers for gliders, producing more than 120 of them. The company took on subcontract work and built more than 100 fuselages for the

InterPlane Skyboy The InterPlane Skyboy is a two-seat, side-by-side, high wing, single engine, pusher configuration ultralight aircraft that was manufactured as a completed aircraft by InterPlane Aircraft of Zbraslavice, Czech Republic. Design and development ...

ultralight aircraft. They produced components for the WT6, the Radab Windex and the

Aeropro Eurofox The Aeropro Eurofox is a Slovakia, Slovak-built two-seat light high-winged aircraft. It qualifies as a light-sport aircraft in the United States.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 20. WDL ...

. In 1992 they designed their own aircraft the

Aerospool Compact Aerospool, spol sro is a Slovak aircraft manufacturer based in Prievidza. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight and kit aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; M ...

. In 1993 Aerospool commenced offering repairs for

Schempp-Hirth Schempp-Hirth Flugzeugbau GmbH is a glider manufacturer based in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany. History Martin Schempp founded his own company in Göppingen in 1935, with the assistance of Wolf Hirth. The company was initially called "Sport ...

gliders and was approved by the German

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authority, the

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and

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s for the Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2C, as well as carrying out pre-assembly, painting and final assembly. In 1996 the Impulz first flew in

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form and was developed into the WT9 Dynamic in 2000. The two-seat WT9 Dynamic achieved commercial success and over 500 had been delivered by 2015. The three-to-four seat version of the WT9 is the WT10 Advantic, which was first flown on 11 April 2013 and remained under development in 2017. The WT10 is intended to be supplied as a kit for amateur construction once production begins.

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by Aerospool: *

Aerospool WT9 Dynamic The Aerospool WT9 Dynamic is a Slovakia, Slovak ultralight aircraft, ultralight and light-sport aircraft, designed and produced by Aerospool of Prievidza. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et ...

Aerospool WT10 Advantic The Aerospool WT10 Advantic is a Slovak amateur-built aircraft, designed and being developed by Aerospool of Prievidza, introduced at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2013. The aircraft is intended to be supplied as a kit for amateur constru ...

* Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2C

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.aerospool.sk Aircraft manufacturers of Slovakia Ultralight aircraft Light-sport aircraft Homebuilt aircraft Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1990 Slovakian companies established in 1990 Slovak brands