Tecma Sport is a French

aircraft manufacturer An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology industry. ...

based in

Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny () is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. The urban center is located in the province of Faucigny. The town had 6,389 inhabitants in 2016. It was born from the f ...

and formerly in La Roche-sur-Foron. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of

hang glider Hang gliding is an air sports, air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised foot-launched heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider. Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminium alloy or Composite ma ...

s and

paraglider Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched Glider (aircraft), glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a :wikt:harness, harness o ...

s in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. The company also makes

ultralight trike An ultralight trike is a type of powered hang glider where flight control is by weight-shift control, weight-shift. These light-sport aircraft, aircraft have a fabric Rogallo wing, flex-wing from which is suspended a tricycle fuselage pod driven ...

s and hang glider harnesses.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 47. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. The company seems to have been founded about 1982, when it produced the

Tecma Mirage Tecma Sport is a French aircraft manufacturer based in Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny and formerly in La Roche-sur-Foron. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of hang gliders and paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. The ...

and

Tecma Spirale Tecma Sport is a French aircraft manufacturer based in Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny and formerly in La Roche-sur-Foron. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of hang gliders and paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. The ...

hang glider models. The company produces a wide range of hang gliders, including the Tecma F1 Tempo series and

Tecma FX The Tecma FX is a French high-wing, single-place, hang glider that was designed and produced by Tecma Sport of La Roche-sur-Foron. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Bertrand, Noel; ...

in the mid-2000s. The two-place

Tecma Medium The Tecma Medium is a French high-wing, two-place, hang glider, designed and produced by Tecma Sports of Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny, introduced in 1985. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''Wor ...

has been in production since 1985.

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* {{Tecma aircraft Aircraft manufacturers of France Ultralight aircraft Hang gliders Ultralight trikes Paragliders Manufacturing companies established in 1982 French companies established in 1982 Companies based in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes