AMS Flight
AMS Flight is a manufacturer of
History
In 1978 the first
The company AMS Flight d.o.o. was established in 1999 to continue the existing aircraft production and took over the entire ELAN FLIGHT division of Elan on 1 September that year.
The company's manufacturing facilities are located at Begunje, in the northwest part of Slovenia, close to the borders with Austria and Italy.
On 14 November 2001 AMS took over from Technoflug GmbH the production of the
The AMS product range expanded with the acquisition of the Apis ULA / Sport Class motor-glider program of the Slovenian company Albastar on 30 July 2003. Manufacturing of the Apis continued in AMS until serial number 52.[citation needed]
In 2005/06 AMS took over the license for the German-designed sailplanes Rolladen-Schneider LS4 and LS6. These types and their planned developments replaced the manufacture of the DG-300 and DG-500, which was being run down.
In 2007 production of the Apis and Bee gliders was transferred to Pipistrel.
Aircraft produced
To July 2008, Elan and AMS had built the following gliders and aircraft parts:
- DG-100 ELAN: 58 sailplanes
- DG-101 ELAN: 164 sailplanes
- DG-300 ELAN: 444 sailplanes
- DG-303 ELAN: 67 sailplanes
- DG-500 ELAN: 139 gliders
- DG-505 ELAN: 121 gliders
- DG-1000S, DG-1000T: 48 sailplanes (AMS works: fuselage lamination and complete sailplane: rough assembly, surfaces finish and final assembly)
- CaratA: 26 motor-gliders
- Apis, Bee: 40 gliders
- LS4-b: 2 sailplanes
- Composite components: wings, tailplanes, rudders: over 230 sets for Sky Arrow 450, Sky Arrow 650TC/TCN, Sinus, Virus
Production line
AMS is the sole owner and manufacturer of the