Skyleader a.s. is a Chinese-owned

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based in

Jihlava Jihlava (; german: Iglau) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 50,000 inhabitants. Jihlava is the capital of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava River on the historical border between Moravia and Bohemia. Historically, Jihlava ...

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. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft in the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale

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and American light-sport aircraft categories.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', pages 76-77. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485XTacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', pages 80-81. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.

History

The company was formed as a successor to the bankrupt Kappa 77, s.r.o., in March 2005 as Jihlavan Airplanes, s.r.o., named for the town in which it is located. Skyleader owns 100% of Jihlavan Airplanes and operates it as a subsidiary. The company works with the Institute of Aerospace Engineering at Brno University of Technology on aircraft design, having jointly developed the

Kappa 77 KP 2U-SOVA The Kappa 77 KP-2U Sova, later produced as the Jihlavan KP-2U Skyleader and most recently as the Jihlavan Skyleader, is a two-seat civil utility aircraft designed in the Czech Republic and available in kit form for home building. It is a conv ...

into the Skyleader 100 to 600 series of

and light-sport aircraft. The

Skyleader GP One The Skyleader GP One is a Czech ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Skyleader Aircraft and introduced at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2010. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berke ...

was developed as a new high-wing design and introduced at the

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show in 2010. Skyleader also does aerospace manufacturing subcontract work and produced the doors for the

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airliner. The

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n company ACS started producing the

Skyleader 600 The Kappa 77 KP-2U Sova, later produced as the Jihlavan KP-2U Skyleader and most recently as the Jihlavan Skyleader, is a two-seat civil utility aircraft designed in the Czech Republic and available in kit form for home building. It is a conv ...

at the state owned TEREM-Letets aircraft factory in

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in July 2015 under a licence agreement. In 2017, Skyleader was purchased by the Chinese firm

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, which is headquartered in

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. Zair set up a local production line in

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to manufacture the

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that received Chinese state certification in 2019. The JA600 is a development of the

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