FreeX

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FreeX GmbH
Type Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Industry Aerospace
Founded1994
Defunctcirca 2013
Headquarters,
Products Paragliders
Website www.freex.com

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. [1] [2]

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The company was founded about 1994 and seems to gone out of business in about 2013. [3] [4]

FreeX was a Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, a limited liability company. [2]

The company produced a wide range of paragliders, including the competition Arrow, intermediate Blade, Moon and Blast, the mountaineering descent FXT wing, the two-place Gemini and the beginner Joker. [1]

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by FreeX:

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References

  1. 1 2 Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 18. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN   1368-485X
  2. 1 2 FreeX. "Contact". Archived from the original on 14 March 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  3. archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20160416043055/http://www.freex.com/. Archived from the original on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. FreeX. "Welcome to FreeX". Archived from the original on 1 March 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Deutscher Hängegleiterverband e.V. (8 August 2001). "Airworthiness advisory freeX paragliders". dhv.de. Archived from the original on 2 December 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.