Parascender Technologies

Parascender Technologies, Inc.
Privately held company
Industry Aerospace
Fate Out of business
Founded 1989
Founder RB Brady and Teri Brady
Defunct September 2004
Headquarters Kissimmee, Florida, United States
Products Kit aircraft
Website home.iag.net/~para/ - former location

Parascender Technologies, Inc. (usually just referred to as Parascender) was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Kissimmee, Florida, founded by RB Brady and Teri Brady in 1989. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of kits for amateur construction.[1][2]

The company seems to have gone out of business in September 2004.[3]

The company produced a line of powered parachutes, including the single place Parascender I introduced in 1989, the two seat Parascender II introduced in 1990 and the Parascender Para-Ag Single seat agricultural application powered parachute.[1][2]

Controversy

The company's business practices were controversial. In December 2002 the Aero News Network (ANN) reported that the company had been the subject of "a number of lawsuits, criminal complaints, and a great many civil complaints to better business bureaus and State's Attorneys General", described the founder as a "convicted felon" and concluded "ANN strongly recommends that Parascender Technologies be avoided (like a cliche, or like the plague…) as a candidate for flight training, PPC dealership agreements, powered parachute equipment, or PPC airframe purchases. We simply have too extensive and persuasive a record of this company's false statements, frauds and other non-performance to remotely believe that there is anything about them that can be recommended."[4]

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by Parascender Technologies
Model name First flight Number built Type
Parascender I 1989 Single seat powered parachute
Parascender II 1990 Two seat powered parachute
Parascender Para-Ag Single seat powered parachute agricultural aircraft

References

  1. 1 2 Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition, pages 339-340. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ISBN 0-9636409-4-1
  2. 1 2 Parascender Technologies (1997). "Why Buy From Us?". Archived from the original on 27 December 2003. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Internet Archive (2007). "Archives for http://home.iag.net/~para/". Retrieved 8 April 2015. External link in |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "ANN Consumer Alert: Parascender Technologies Still Bad Bet - They're Still Doing It...". Aero News Network. 2 December 2002. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
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