Explorair

{{Short description|German aircraft manufacturer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2022}}

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| type = Privately held company

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| fate = Out of business

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| foundation = 2002

| founder = Mathias Mauch

| defunct = 2004

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| hq_location_city = Ebringen, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg

| hq_location_country = Germany

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| industry = Aerospace

| products = Powered parachutes
Ultralight trikes

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Explorair was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Ebringen, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg and later in Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg and founded by Mathias Mauch. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes and ultralight trikes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles and the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight categories.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 81. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X{{cite web|url=http://www.explorair.de/html/address.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030809024043/http://www.explorair.de/html/address.html|title=address|archive-date=9 August 2003|work=explorair.de|access-date=12 June 2015}}

Explorair seems to have been founded about 2002 and gone out of business in 2004.{{cite web|url= https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.explorair.de/ |title=Explorair |website=Internet Archive Wayback Machine |access-date=12 June 2015}}{{cbignore}}

The company produced the Explorair Relax MV, a single-seat powered parachute that could be converted to an ultralight trike by substituting a hang glider wing for the parachute wing.

Aircraft

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+ align=center style="background:#BFD7FF"| Summary of aircraft built by Explorair
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! Model name

! First flight

! Number built

! Type

align=left| Explorair Relax MV

|align=center| 2002

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|align=left| Single-seat powered parachute and ultralight trike

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