{{Short description|German aircraft manufacturer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use British English|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox company | name = Explorair | logo = Explorair Logo.png | logo_size = 250px | caption = | type = Privately held company | traded_as = | fate = Out of business | predecessor = | successor = | foundation = 2002 | founder = Mathias Mauch | defunct = 2004 | hq_location = | hq_location_city = Ebringen, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg | hq_location_country = Germany | area_served = | key_people = | industry = Aerospace | products = Powered parachutes<br />Ultralight trikes | services = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | assets = | equity = | owner = | num_employees = | parent = | divisions = | subsid = | homepage = | footnotes = | intl = }}
'''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.<ref name="WDLA04">Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 81. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
Explorair seems to have been founded about 2002 and gone out of business in 2004.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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.<ref name="WDLA04"/>
== Aircraft ==
{| class="wikitable" align=center |- |+ align=center style="background:#BFD7FF"| Summary of aircraft built by Explorair |- style="background:#efefef;" ! Model name ! First flight ! Number built ! Type
|- |align=left| Explorair Relax MV |align=center| 2002 |align=center| |align=left| Single-seat powered parachute and ultralight trike |-
|}
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany Category:Ultralight aircraft Category:Ultralight trikes Category:Powered parachutes