SC Paragliding was a
Ukrainian
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aircraft manufacturer
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based in
Kharkiv
Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.[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 ' ...]
s in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.
[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 28. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ]
The company seems to have been founded in the early 2000s and gone out of business before 2016.
In 2002, the company had introduced two models of paragliders, with just one size each. A year later, in 2003, they had a line that included the
Discovery
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in seven sizes including two sizes for two-place
flight training and the
Scorpion
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones. They have eight legs, and are easily recognized by a pair of grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back and always en ...
in four sizes.
Reviewer Noel Bertrand in 2003 noted that the company was one of very few in that year offering a paraglider design for sale under
€
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1,000.
Aircraft
Summary of aircraft built by SC:
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SC Discovery
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SC Scorpion
References
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Ukraine
Companies based in Kharkiv
Paragliders