EasyUp was an American
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.
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founded by professional engineer Tom Tate in the 1990s and based in
Medford, Oregon
Medford is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Oregon, in the United States. As of the 2020 United States Census on April 1, 2020, the city had a total population of 85,824 and a metropolitan area population of 223,259, making the Me ...
. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of
paramotors
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in the form of plans and kits for
amateur construction under the US
FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles
Ultralight aircraft in the United States are much smaller and lighter than ultralight aircraft as defined by all other countries.
In the United States, ultralights are described as "ultralight vehicles" and not as aircraft. They are not requ ...
rules and the European
microlight
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with ailer ...
category.
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The company's sole product was plans, and later kits, for the
EasyUp Parapropter, a paramotor design using a wide variety of small gasoline engines. The plans consisted of full-sized by inch professional blueprints.
The business was eventually wound up, with Tate writing, "I have moved on to much bigger and better things."
Aircraft
References
External links
*{{Official website, http://easyup.cc/
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Paramotors
Companies based in Medford, Oregon