Calipt'Air

{{Short description|Aircraft manufacturer based in Spiez, Switzerland}}

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| foundation = December 1997

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| hq_location_city = Spiez

| hq_location_country = Switzerland

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| industry = Aerospace

| products = Paragliders

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Calipt'Air AG was a Swiss aircraft manufacturer based in Spiez. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paragliders and also produced a line of emergency parachutes.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 14. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. {{ISSN|1368-485X}}

The company name comes from Ancient Greek. Kalos means beautiful and pteryx means wing.{{cite web|url=http://www.caliptair.com/|title=Caliptair|work=caliptair.com|access-date=28 March 2016}}

The company was founded in December 1997 and went out of business in 2005. A memorial website for the company was created in 2009, but was later taken down from the internet.{{cite web|url= https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.caliptair.com |title=Calipt'Air |website=Internet Archive Wayback Machine |access-date=15 March 2016}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|url=http://www.caliptair.com/mainEnglish.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020405182000/http://www.caliptair.com/mainEnglish.html|archive-date=5 April 2002|title=Calipt'air main page (english)|work=caliptair.com|access-date=28 March 2016}}

Calipt'Air was an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation limited by share ownership.{{cite web|url=http://www.caliptair.com/AboutUs/aboutUsPageEnglish.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020610053101/http://www.caliptair.com/AboutUs/aboutUsPageEnglish.html|archive-date=10 June 2002|title=Calipt'air - about us (english)|work=caliptair.com|access-date=28 March 2016}}

The company produced a range of paragliders, including the Calipt'Air Serenis intermediate glider, the Calipt'Air Vectis performance intermediate and competition wing and the Calipt'Air Walabis Bi for the tandem flight training role. It also made the SOS line of emergencies parachutes.