Skywalk GmbH & Co. KG is a German

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. ...

based in

Marquartstein Marquartstein is a municipality in the southeastern part of Bavaria, Germany and is part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Marquartstein and Staudach-Egerndach. It is situated in a region called Chiemgau, approximately 10 km south of Lake Chiems ...

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

. Founded by Manfred Kistler and Thomas Allertseder in 2001, 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 as well as paragliding harnesses. The company also makes kite surfing wings and promotional

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s.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 31. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. Manfred Kistler formerly worked for

Swing Flugsportgeräte Swing Flugsportgeräte GmbH ( en, Swing Air Sports Equipment Limited, italic=yes) is a German aircraft manufacturer based in Landsberied, west of Munich, near the Bavarian Alps.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure ...

and Thomas Allerseder was a director of Betech. The company is organized as a

Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung A ''Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung'' (, abbreviated GmbH and also GesmbH in Austria; ) is a type of legal entity common in Germany, Austria, Switzerland (where it is equivalent to a ''société à responsabilité limitée''), and Liecht ...

and Co. kommanditgesellschaft limited partnership.

History

The company's first glider was the

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, an intermediate paraglider certified to DHV 1-2 standards. In 2003 the DHV 2 certified

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was added to the line. By 2016 the company offered a full line of "classic" gliders as well as lightweight designs, mountain descent miniwings and a tandem design, the Join't for

flight training Flight training is a course of study used when learning to pilot an aircraft. The overall purpose of primary and intermediate flight training is the acquisition and honing of basic airmanship skills. Flight training can be conducted under a str ...

Divisions

;Flysurfer Kiteboarding :Kite surfing kites & boards ;Skywalk Paragliders :Paragliders and harnesses ;X-Gloo Creative Event Equipment :Promotional tents and trade show display equipment

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by Skywalk: * Skywalk Arriba *

Skywalk Cayenne The Skywalk Cayenne is a German single-place paraglider that was designed and produced by Skywalk GmbH & Co. KG of Grassau, Bavaria. Introduced in 2003, it remained in production through 2016 as the Cayenne 5.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al ...

* Skywalk Chili *

Skywalk Hype The Skywalk Hype is a German single-place paraglider that was designed and produced by Skywalk GmbH & Co. KG of Grassau, Bavaria Grassau is a market town in the district of Traunstein in Bavaria in Germany. It is located south of lake Chiems ...

* Skywalk Join't * Skywalk Masala * Skywalk Mescal * Skywalk Poison * Skywalk Spice * Skywalk Tequila * Skywalk Tonic * Skywalk Tonka * Skywalk X-Alps

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Skywalk GmbH and Co. KG Aircraft manufacturers of Germany Paragliders German companies established in 2001 Manufacturing companies established in 2001 Companies based in Bavaria