# Flylight

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{{Short description|British aircraft manufacturer}}
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{{Use British English|date=July 2017}}
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| key_people       = Director / Chief Flying Instructor: Paul Dewhurst<ref name="flylight1">{{cite web |url=http://www.flylight.co.uk/tuition/team.htm |title=Flylight Airsports Ltd. - Tuition |publisher=Flylight.co.uk |accessdate=2014-05-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217000156/http://www.flylight.co.uk/tuition/team.htm |archivedate=17 December 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />Director/ Hang-gliding CFI: Stewart Bond<ref name="flylight1"/><br />Director / Instructor / Designer: Ben Ashman<ref name="flylight1"/>
| industry         = [Aerospace](/source/Aerospace)
| products         = [Ultralight trike](/source/Ultralight_trike)s
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'''Flylight Airsports''' is a British aircraft manufacturer based in [Northamptonshire](/source/Northamptonshire). The company specializes in the design and manufacture of [ultralight trike](/source/ultralight_trike)s and is noted for its line of retractable gear single seat aircraft, such as the [Dragonfly](/source/Flylight_Dragonfly). The company also acts as importer for several lines of aircraft including the [Best Off Skyranger](/source/Best_Off_Skyranger) and the [Aeros](/source/Aeros) line of [hang glider](/source/hang_glider)s.<ref name="WDLA11">Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 212-213. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X</ref><ref name="WDLA04">Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 67. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X</ref>

In 2011 the company experimented with an [electric aircraft](/source/electric_aircraft) derivative of the Dragonfly, designated the [Flylight E-Dragon](/source/Flylight_E-Dragon).<ref name="WDLA11" />

== Aircraft ==
[[File:G-LOAM MotorFloater first flight.jpg|thumb|right|[Flylight Motorfloater](/source/Flylight_Motorfloater)]]
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|+  style="text-align:center; background:#bfd7ff;"| '''Summary of aircraft built by Flylight'''
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! Model name
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|align=left| '''[Flylight Dragonfly](/source/Flylight_Dragonfly)'''
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|align=left| [Ultralight trike](/source/Ultralight_trike)
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|align=left| '''[Flylight E-Dragon](/source/Flylight_E-Dragon)'''
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|align=center| 
|align=left| Ultralight trike
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|align=left| '''[Flylight Motorfloater](/source/Flylight_Motorfloater)'''
|align=center| 2010
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|align=left| Ultralight trike
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|align=left| '''[Flylight Doodle Bug](/source/Flylight_Doodle_Bug)'''
|align=center| 1999
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|align=left| [Powered hang glider](/source/Powered_hang_glider)
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.flylight.co.uk/}}
{{Flylight aircraft}}

Category:Aircraft manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Category:Ultralight trikes

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