AMS Flight

AMS flight is a glider, motorglider and ultralight aircraft manufacturer based in Begunje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia.

In 1978 the first DG-100 ELAN, a single-seat sailplane, rolled through the production line, built by a team of Elan employees at the German company Glaser-Dirks in Bruchsal, Germany. Long term cooperation with Glaser Dirks and later on DG Flugzeugbau continued. In the ELAN factory at Begunje glider models DG-100 Elan, DG-300 Elan, DG-500 Elan and DG-1000 AMS were designed and manufactured.

The company named 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, as of 1 September that year.

The company’s manufacturing facilities are located at Begunje (in the Elan plant), 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 Carat motorglider. The Carat is a single-seat, powered glider with the engine in the nose. The Carat was designed in Germany for long range cruising flights and for soaring, as "two in one". The Carat has electro-hydraulic landing gear and a folding "beak" propeller. The Magnus, a two-seat, side by side "Carat" is under development by AMS.

The AMS product range expanded with the acquisition of the Apis ULA / Sport Class motor-glider program of the Slovenian company Albastar, at 30 July 2003. Manufacturing of the Apis continued in AMS till the serial number 52.

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