Pegas 2000 SRO is a Czech

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based in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of

paraglider Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness or lies supine in a cocoon-like 'po ...

s in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. The company also builds

powered paragliding 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 ...

wings and

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s.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 27. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. The company is a

společnost s ručením omezeným Společnost s ručením omezeným ( lit. ‘company with limited liability’) is the Czech and Slovak legal structure for a private limited company A private limited company is any type of business entity in "private" ownership used in many ...

(SRO), a Czech limited company.

History

The company was founded in 1989 and in 1990 started its own paraglider

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school and also introduced its first elliptical planform glider, the Pegas Fazole. In 1994 the company developed its own paraglider design

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, which allowed designing diagonal ribs and other features only possible with computer modelling. In 1993 the company started developing

s for kite surfing and kite snowboarding, establishing a school for kite boarding in 2002. In 1999 the company introduced the Pegas Pony, a glider that became a benchmark. By the mid 2000s the company was producing the beginner Pegas Arcus, intermediate

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and

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, the cross country Bellus and the competition Certus. A two-place glider, the Discus was also in the catalogue.

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by Pegas 2000: * Pegas Arcus * Pegas Avis * Pegas Bain * Pegas Bellus *

Pegas Certus The Pegas Certus is a Czech single-place paraglider that was designed and produced by Pegas 2000 of Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital ...

* Pegas Discus * Pegas Fazole * Pegas One * Pegas Pony *

Pegas Power Pegas may refer to: * Meletius I Pegas (1549–1601), Greek Patriarch of Alexandria * Pegas (bicycle company), a Romanian bicycle manufacturer * Pegas 2000, a Czech manufacturer of paragliders and other aircraft * Tomashevich Pegas, a WWII Soviet p ...

Pegas Revo Pegas may refer to: * Meletius I Pegas (1549–1601), Greek Patriarch of Alexandria * Pegas (bicycle company), a Romanian bicycle manufacturer * Pegas 2000, a Czech manufacturer of paragliders and other aircraft * Tomashevich Pegas, a WWII Soviet p ...

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* {{Pegas 2000 aircraft Aircraft manufacturers of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia Ultralight aircraft Paragliders Companies established in 1989 1989 establishments in Czechoslovakia