FreeX
{{Short description|German aircraft manufacturer}}
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| type = Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
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| foundation = 1994
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| defunct = circa 2013
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| hq_location_city = Lenggries
| hq_location_country = Germany
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| industry = Aerospace
| products = Paragliders
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FreeX GmbH (usually styled freeX) was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Lenggries and previously located in Egling. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04, page 18. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. {{ISSN|1368-485X}}{{cite web |author= |date= |title=Contact |url=http://www.freex.com/index.php?id=5&no_cache=1 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314025634/http://www.freex.com/index.php?id=5&no_cache=1 |archivedate=14 March 2013 |accessdate=17 May 2016 |website=FreeX}}
The company was founded about 1994 and seems to gone out of business in about 2013, as the website started returning database errors.{{cite web |title=FreeX Website |url=http://www.freex.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130628154010/http://www.freex.com/ |archive-date=2013-06-28 |accessdate=17 May 2016 |work=}}
FreeX was a Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, a limited liability company.
The company produced a wide range of paragliders, including the competition Arrow, intermediate Blade, Moon and Blast, the mountaineering descent FXT wing, the two-place Gemini and the beginner Joker.
Aircraft
Summary of aircraft built by FreeX:
- FreeX Arrow
- FreeX Blade
- FreeX Blast
- FreeX Flair{{cite web|url = https://www.dhv.de/db1/technicdatareportnotes.php?lang=en&item=6|title = Airworthiness advisory freeX paragliders
|access-date = 15 November 2019|author=Deutscher Hängegleiterverband e.V. |work = dhv.de|date = 8 August 2001|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20191202123551/https://www.dhv.de/db1/technicdatareportnotes.php?lang=en&item=6|archivedate =2 December 2019 }}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.freex.com}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.freex.com Company website archives] on Archive.org
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