Aero East Europe d.o.o. (styled as ''Aero-East-Europe'') is a
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...
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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.
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that was based in
Kraljevo and is now in
Jagodina. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of
ultralight aircraft
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with ailer ...
and
light aircraft in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.
[Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 14. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ]
The company is a ''društvo sa ograničenom odgovornošću'', a Serbian Private
Limited Liability Company
A limited liability company (LLC for short) is the US-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of a ...
.
The company has designed and built the
Sila line of light aircraft. ''Sila'' stands for ''Serbian industry light aircraft'', but also means ''power'' in the
Serbian language
Serbian (, ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official and national language of Serbia, one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and co-official in Montenegro and Kos ...
. The range includes the Sila 450 C and Sila 750 C cruiser models, the Sila 750 S
STOL
A short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft is a conventional fixed-wing aircraft that has short runway requirements for takeoff and landing. Many STOL-designed aircraft also feature various arrangements for use on airstrips with harsh conditio ...
, the three-seat Sila 750 MT medical transport and the four-seat Sila 950.
The company designs aircraft in conjunction with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...
.
Aside from aircraft manufacturing, the company also conducts
aircraft maintenance and
aircraft engine
An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system. Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbines, although a few have been rocket powered and in recent years many ...
maintenance.
Aircraft
Summary of aircraft built by Aero East Europe:
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Aero East Europe Sila
The Aero East Europe Sila (English: ''force, power'' or ''strength'' and also short for ''Serbian industry light aircraft'') is a family of Serbian ultralight and light aircraft, designed and produced by Aero East Europe of Kraljevo and later of ...
(Serbian industry light aircraft) series
See also
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Aircraft industry of Serbia Kingdom of Serbia became part of the new state, Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. which was formed on 1 December 1918. Even though the industry was on a very low level of development, the state was among the first 10 countries in the world ...
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