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Contains high resolution Airborne images for magazine and press use.

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Contains high resolution Airborne images for magazine and press use.

AirBorne Dealer Support AirBorne supply a wide range of promotional and advertising support for dealers.


Adventure Productions is the #1 source for DVDs, videos, books, pilot training materials

PILOTFRIEND
Planning a trip? The Pilot Friend web site has a ton of information for pilots the world over. Flight planning aids, flight calculators, airport info weather and much more. Click Here to check the web site out.

For Australian powered pilots the RAA web site has some excellent content to help pilot's brush up on on their theory with in depth articles on naviagation etc. Click Here To go there!

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World Directory of Leisure Aviation
The 2007/2008 issue is out now, click here to order your copy. Available at some newsagency outlets for AU$22.20, or you can order online

AirBorne Pricing
Prices are not displayed on the website as we sell in several currencies. To get prices simply fillout the pricing form.

AVIATOR MAGAZINE This is a high quality magazine that covers all types of aviation from Microlights through to fixed wing and helicopters. Available on news stands. www.flyingflea.com.au Some interesting triking stuff on this web site, videos and photos. click the logo above to enter.


A new web site dedicated to pilots. The site is free to all users and has plenty of useful information including flight training theory and practical structure. Pilot forum and much more.

 

   
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latest enews

Western Australia - Broome International
Broome trike flights are one of the very few schools that operates from...
Brazil - First Solo on the XT
Fernando Guimaraes, Airborne Importer goes Solo. See the video...
Valencia Spain - 33rd Americas Cup Challenge - Defending Champions Alinghi - Challenger BMW Oracle
Two Airborne XT912's on floats form part of the Alinghi team...
New 2000 TBO for new Rotax 912 Engines
Rotax announces extension of time between overhauls for the 912 engine series...
AU$27,630 to buy an Airborne Microlight?
Airborne has the largest range of microlights available in the world. All are two seaters. The X-Series starts with the Redback and will get you and your passenger in the air for under AU$30K (ex GST). These certified designs are very capable cross country aircraft...
New Maintenance Bulletin
Hollow Axle issue on early XT-912 aircraft. Click on the mandatory service bulletins button on the home page of the web site for more info...
Italy! With Herbert Hofbauer and Micky Mazzolain
Airborne now flying in Italy...
Flo Orley
Coming soon to the Airborne website a slide show showing some extreme hang gliding by Flo.
Winter Flying in the UK
The UK is having an extreme winter but that didn't stop Graham Webster Airborne UK...
XT-912's in Fairbanks Alaska
Extreme temperatures, extreme terrrain...
Airborne in Israel
Fly to the desert, then on the way back park in a shopping center carpark for a coffee, there is...
   
Welcome to AirBorne Australia

Microlights, Ultralights, Trikes, Ultralight Trikes and Hang Gliders.

Airborne specialise in the design and manufacture of ultralights (also called, microlights, trikes or ultralight trikes) and hang gliders, for the serious adventure aviation enthusiast.


Airborne Microlights
Choose from a variety of aircraft including the top of the range XT-912 Tundra, the latest and most versatile microlight in our range. Feel confident when you fly, choose a certified aircraft. Our aircraft are certified to Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) requirements. They are also approved to UK, German, French, South African and Israeli standards and are approved through these standards in most countries throughout the world. Our design's are tested to 6g positive and 3g negative. That's a massive 2500kgs+ or 5511+ pounds in load applied to the wing for the positive test. Other test requirements include landing load, deceleration and weld testing. The Airborne factory is a Civil Aviation Approved facility. We use quality Rotax engines on all Airborne models

Erick Danzer asks the question:
"Can Microlights Save the Rainforest?"

Forest rangers from Gunung Palung National Park prepare for an air patrol in one of the Park's microlight aircraft. These aircraft are the centerpiece of a creative strategy to combat illegal logging that uses microlights to cruise over the forest, locate illegal logging operations and send in armed teams to apprehend loggers.
By 2003, when the microlights were first used, logging in the Park had damaged 50 percent of the Park's forests and forced closure of its Cabang Panti research station. Since adoption of this new strategy, illegal logging has gone from rampant to rare. Elsewhere in Borneo, illegal logging is still at crisis levels. The Center for International Forestry Research has recently reported that 70 percent of timber flowing from Indonesia is now illegal, while the WWF has estimated that most lowland forest in Borneo will be gone by 2010.
Gunung Palung is a jewel of biodiversity. It's 90,000 hectares contain a wider range of habitats than any other protected area in Borneo, including one of the largest remaining areas of undisturbed lowland rainforest.

 
Who is Erick Danzer
Erick is a freelance environmental and cultural photographer based in Indonesia. Erick Danzer images reflect his passion for the natural world. He operates in a unique and wild environment where risk and taking photo's goes hand in hand. Visit Erick's web site to see some of his superb photography.
Both his photography and his academic research are driven by a passionate desire to protect the world's rapidly dwindling wild areas and improve the human condition.   
To discuss use of any of Erick Danzers photo's, please contact Erick at erick@erickdanzer.com.
For more information, please visit Erick's homepage at www.erickdanzer.com.

HG Stop Press... The Sting 3 is now available in two sizes: the 154 and the 168. Check out the reviews in the hang glider section of the web site.


Airborne hang gliders have an enviable reputation around the world for their highly engineered finish, both in the sail work and the airframe. Each model comes in a variety of sizes and performance to suit different pilot weight and experience. Our gliders are constructed from super light weight 7075. From the sand dunes to cloudbase you can rely on Airborne hang gliders for strength and reliabilty.

HG Stop Press 2! Chabre 2009... From Ed Ewing - "Why do I start off with Scott Barrett winning the day? Because it is news! It is news because it is against type, against expectations. It shakes up our view of the world. It isn't supposed to be happening, but it is. This is a guy who has never flown here. He's flying on a glider from the smaller and less celebrated of the two Australian hang gliding companies. He's a designer at that company (and stands in stark contrast to the designer at the other company)..." Scott Barrett and his C4 went on to win the pre-worlds at Chabre

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Hang Glider Pilots
Don't miss out on the Oz Report for the latest world hang gliding news and events. You can also subscribe and receive this valuable hang glider enews daily in your inbox. The Oz Report is written by Davis Straub and features competition results, glider test flights, and articles on all sorts of interesting HG related subjects.

World HG events calender coutesy of the OZ Report Click Here