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Sokopf

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Former type
  
Privately held company

Founder
  
Uli Sokopf

Headquarters
  
Innsbruck, Austria

Founded
  
1990

Industry
  
Aerospace

Defunct
  
late 2000s

Products
  
Paramotors

Sokopf was an Austrian aircraft manufacturer based in Innsbruck and founded by Uli Sokopf. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paramotors in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category.

The company seems to have been founded before 1998 and gone out of business after 2004.

The company's line of paramotors, the Sokopf Falke, is noted for its emphasis on high power, rather than low empty weight, unlike many other paramotor manufacturers. In an emergency the entire engine unit can be jettisoned.

References

Sokopf Wikipedia