Corvus Hungary LLC is an

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 indust ...

that was founded in 2011 to produce the Corvus Fusion aircraft.

History

Started in 2004, originally named Corvus Aircraft Ltd and based in Ballószög,

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...

, the company consisted of five employees including Managing Director Tamás Gecse and Chief Engineer Andras Voloscsuk. The company developed the Corvus Corone Mk 1 aircraft. Corvus Aircraft began development of the

ultralight 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 aile ...

Corvus Corone MK II in 2006 and had its first company presence at

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airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA. Corvus Aircraft debuted its Corvus Phantom aircraft in 2007. Corvus Aircraft also signed a contract with Red Bull for developing a new airplane, the Corvus Racer 540, for

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designed especially for air racing. In August 2011, a new company Corvus Hungary LLC was formed, based in

, to develop the Corvus Fusion aircraft. In 2012 the company established a joint venture, called ''Corvus Aerospace (Suzhou)'' in Suzhou, China, to manufacturer parts and develop the Corvus Racer 312, a smaller version of the Corvus Racer 540 for the European microlight and American

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categories. The new design first flew on 1 November 2013Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 40. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.

Aircraft

References

{{Corvus Aircraft Aircraft manufacturers of Hungary Companies established in 2011 Hungarian brands