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LH Aviation was a French aircraft manufacturing company, founded in 2004 and located in Melun-Villaroche. LH Aviation developed the LH-10 Ellipse. [1] [ citation needed ]
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LH Aviation was a French aircraft manufacturing company, founded in 2004 and located in Melun-Villaroche. LH Aviation developed the LH-10 Ellipse. [1] [ citation needed ]
The company was founded in 2004 by Sébastien Lefebvre as a manufacturer of ultralight single and two-seater carbon fibre aircraft. [2] A prototype of the first airplane was created that year by Frédéric Hubschwerlenson and Lefebvre. [3]
Their plane, the LH-10, has multiple versions including automated and training planes. [1] The LH-10 was shown at the 2009 Le Bourget Paris Air Show. [4]
In 2015 the company had about 50 employees in Villaroche, France, [5] including one dedicated pilot. [6]
Over the years the company raised capital from investors in different countries, [3] including Mohsine Karim-Bennani from Morocco, who wanted to create a Moroccan subsidiary and a manufacturing plant in Casablanca. However the two sides ended up in court and the collaboration was cancelled. [2]
Lefebvre left the company in July 2016. [2]
After several years of insolvency, the company was placed in recovery in 2018, and judicial liquidation began in September 2019. [7] [8] The assets were bought by I-SEE Group, who commercialized the LH-10 and the LH-D as IC-10 and IC-D, respectively. [9] [10]
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