FreeX GmbH (usually styled freeX) was a German

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based in Lenggries and previously located in

Egling Egling () is a municipality in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states ...

. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of

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s in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 18. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. The company was founded about 1994 and seems to gone out of business in about 2013, as the website started returning database errors. FreeX was a

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, a

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. The company produced a wide range of paragliders, including the competition

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, intermediate

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and Blast, the mountaineering descent FXT wing, the two-place Gemini and the beginner Joker.

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by FreeX: *

FreeX Arrow The FreeX Arrow is a German single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by FreeX of Egling in the mid-2000s. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 18. ...

* FreeX Blade * FreeX Blast *

FreeX Flair FreeX GmbH (usually styled freeX) was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Lenggries and previously located in Egling. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.Bertrand, Noel; ...

FreeX FXT The FreeX FXT is a German single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by FreeX of Egling in the mid-2000s. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 18. Pag ...

* FreeX Gemini * FreeX Joker * FreeX Mission * FreeX Moon * FreeX Oxygen * FreeX Pure * Freex Stereo * FreeX Sun

References

External links

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Company website archives
on

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{{FreeX aircraft Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany Paragliders German companies established in 1994