Celier Aviation 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 ...

, founded by Raphael Celier in

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in 1993. The company was moved to

Piotrków Trybunalski Piotrków Trybunalski (; also known by alternative names), often simplified to Piotrków, is a city in central Poland with 71,252 inhabitants (2021). It is the second-largest city situated in the Łódź Voivodeship. Previously, it was the capita ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

in 2006 and Safi, Malta in 2017. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of

autogyro An autogyro (from Greek and , "self-turning"), also known as a ''gyroplane'', is a type of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift. Forward thrust is provided independently, by an engine-driven propeller. Whi ...

s available in kit form and also as fully assembled aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', pages 34 and 178. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X The company established its reputation with the two-seat side-by-side configuration

Celier Xenon 2 The Celier Xenon 2 (also referred to by the manufacturer as the Xenon II) is a series of Poland, Polish autogyros that was designed by Frenchman Raphael Celier and produced by his company, Celier Aviation of Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. The a ...

series of autogyros. By 2011 over 100 of these were flying. Celier subsequently developed a

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-seat design, the

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, but it was not produced in large numbers. By 2014 the company was offering only the Xenon 4, a development of the Xenon 2. The company also developed the XeWing, a fixed wing

light aircraft A light aircraft is an aircraft that has a maximum gross takeoff weight of or less.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition'', page 308. Aviation Supplies & Academics, 1997. Light aircraft are used as utility aircraft co ...

using the

fuselage The fuselage (; from the French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an engine as well, although in some amphibious aircraf ...

and engine of the Xenon 2, but mounting a folding strut-braced

parasol wing A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing confi ...

in place of the autogyro's main rotor. The design was shown at

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in 2009, but was never offered for sale and it is unlikely it was ever developed beyond a single prototype.

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