Skyleader a.s. is a Chinese-owned aircraft manufacturer based in Jihlava, Czech Republic. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of

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in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft in the

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microlight and American

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History

The company was formed as a successor to the bankrupt Kappa 77, s.r.o., in March 2005 as Jihlavan Airplanes, s.r.o., named for the town in which it is located. Skyleader owns 100% of Jihlavan Airplanes and operates it as a subsidiary. The company works with the Institute of Aerospace Engineering at

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on aircraft design, having jointly developed the Kappa 77 KP 2U-SOVA into the Skyleader 100 to 600 series of microlight and

. The Skyleader GP One was developed as a new high-wing design and introduced at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2010. Skyleader also does aerospace manufacturing subcontract work and produced the doors for the Airbus A320 airliner. The Bulgarian company ACS started producing the Skyleader 600 at the state owned TEREM-Letets aircraft factory in Sofia in July 2015 under a licence agreement. In 2017, Skyleader was purchased by the Chinese firm

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, which is headquartered in Wuhan. Zair set up a local production line in Hubei to manufacture the

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that received Chinese state certification in 2019. The JA600 is a development of the Skyleader 600.

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* {{Skyleader Aircraft Aircraft manufacturers of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia Czech brands Ultralight aircraft Homebuilt aircraft

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