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Société Nouvelle d'Aviation Sportive

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Société Nouvelle d'Aviation Sportive
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryAerospace
Founded2001
Defunct2004
FateOut of business
Headquarters,
ProductsPowered parachutes
ServicesUltralight aircraft maintenance, flight training

Société Nouvelle d'Aviation Sportive (SNAS) (English: New Society of Sport Aviation) was a French aircraft manufacturer and flight school based in Noillac. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category.[1]

SNAS produced a line of powered parachutes under the Stryke-Air brand. These included the Stryke-Air Bi and the Stryke-Air Monoplace. Their aircraft designs were noted for their fixed fin to reduce propeller torque effects and also for seating the pilot behind the passenger on their two-place aircraft.[1]

In addition to aircraft manufacturing, the company also conducted ultralight aircraft flight training for both three axis control and powered parachute aircraft types and operated an ultralight aircraft maintenance facility.[2][3]

The company seems to have been founded in 2001 and gone out of business in 2004.[4]

Aircraft

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Summary of aircraft built by SNAS
Model name First flight Number built Type
Stryke-Air Bi 2001 Two seat powered parachute
Stryke-Air Monoplace 2001 Single seat powered parachute

References

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  1. ^ a b Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 86. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X
  2. ^ "Bienvenue sur le site de la Société Nouvelle d'Aviation Sportive". stryke-air.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2004. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Ecole de la Société Nouvelle d'Aviation Sportive". stryke-air.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2004. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Stryke-Air". Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
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