Marbella Parapente SL ( en, Marbella Paragliders) was a Spanish

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based in

Málaga Málaga (, ) is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 578,460 in 2020, it is the second-most populous city in Andalusia after Seville and the sixth most pop ...

and founded by Pierre Aubert. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of

paramotors Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring or PPG, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a back-pack motor (a paramotor) which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider. It can be launched in still air, and on ...

in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US

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rules and the European microlight category.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 71. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X The company seems to have been founded before 1998 and gone out of business in March 2005. The company was a

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, a Spanish limited liability company. Marbella Parapente produced the PAP family of paramotors that were noted for such details as incorporating the

reserve parachute Parachuting, including also skydiving, is a method of transiting from a high point in the Atmosphere of Earth, atmosphere to the surface of Earth with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachut ...

within the frame structure. PAP series paramotors were flown to first-place finishes in the world championships in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Pilot Ramon Morillas set a world record in June 1998, flying a PAP paramotor across Spain from the southwest to the northeast over a distance of covered in about 11.5 hours.

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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Spain Ultralight aircraft Powered parachutes Paramotors Companies of Andalusia Málaga