Grif Italia, or just Grif, is an Italian
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 ...
based in
Castel Sant'Elia
Castel Sant'Elia (locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Viterbo, Latium, central Italy, located about north of Rome and about southeast of Viterbo.
Main sights
Castel Sant'Elia's main attraction is the Basilica of Sant'Eli ...
. The company specializes in
hang glider
Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised foot-launched heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider. Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminium alloy or composite frame cover ...
s and wings for
ultralight trike
An ultralight trike is a type of powered hang glider where flight control is by weight-shift. These aircraft have a fabric flex-wing from which is suspended a tricycle fuselage pod driven by a pusher propeller. The pod accommodates either a ...
s.
[Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 44. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X]
The company was founded in 1989 by hang glider pilot and instructor Italo Graziani. The company's motto is "Passion Into Innovation".
Aircraft
See also
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List of Italian companies
Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe with the third largest nominal GDP in the Eurozone and the eighth largest in the world. As an advanced economy the country also has the sixth worldwide national wealth and it is ranked third ...
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{{Grif aircraft
Hang gliders
Ultralight trikes
Aircraft manufacturers of Italy
Companies established in 1989
Italian companies established in 1989