Sokopf

Sokopf
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryAerospace
Founded1990s
FounderUli Sokopf
Defunctlate 2000s
Headquarters
Innsbruck
,
Austria
ProductsParamotors

Sokopf was an Austrian aircraft manufacturer based in Innsbruck and founded by Uli Sokopf. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paramotors in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category.[1][2]

The company seems to have been founded before 1998 and gone out of business after 2004.[1][2]

The company's line of paramotors, the Sokopf Falke, is noted for its emphasis on high power, rather than low empty weight, unlike many other paramotor manufacturers.[1] In an emergency the entire engine unit can be jettisoned.[3]

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by Sokopf
Model name First flight Number built Type
Sokopf Falke 1998 paramotor

References

  1. ^ a b c Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 75. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
  2. ^ a b All-Aero. "Sokopf Uli". all-aero.com. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  3. ^ All-Aero. "Sokopf Uli Falke". all-aero.com. Retrieved 9 January 2016.