Type | Privately held company |
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Industry | Aerospace |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Powered parachutes |
Sundog Powerchutes Inc was a Canadian aircraft manufacturer based in Sparwood, British Columbia and later in Pierceland, Saskatchewan. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the Canadian Basic Ultra-Light Aeroplane category and which also fit the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category. [1]
The company seems to have been founded about 2002 and gone out of business in 2014. [2]
The company built two models of powered parachute, the Two-Seater and One-Seater, both similar designs made from 6061-T6 aluminium tubing. In reviewing the aircraft in 2003 Jean-Pierre le Camus described their design as having, "a lot of character". [1]
Model name | First flight | Number built | Type |
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Sundog One-Seater | 2002 | At least one | Single seat powered parachute |
Sundog Two-Seater | 2002 | At least six | Two seat powered parachute |
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