G1 - STOL




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After an extensive training by several UL and plane builders, air-minded Charles GUERIN established in 1994 his own handicraft business and started designing a robust and spacious high-end STOL which would be compatible to the UL class.

His company "Espace liberté" produced the first G1 in 2000.
This easy-to-handle UL is able to take off in less than 30 meters and meets the requirements of the most demanding aviators. In the beginning of 2006 about 20 G1 were flying, most of them in France.

In April 2006 Serge Présent (a former metal industry manager, also air-minded, a pilot of planes, gliders and ULs, owner of one G1) started the "SAS G1 Aviation" mainly in order to transform the small-scale workshop into a modern high-productivity industry.

He was determined to modernise thoroughly tools and processes and therfeore introduced a CNC machining centre, filtered air paint spraying booths, and a renewed tool outfit. He also hired several more technicians in order to attain in the short run the output of four G1 every month ... which objective has been achieved in the meantime.

Charles Guerin is now R & D department manager and he is in charge of the quality control.

In 2007 G1 Aviation released several prototypes : a beautiful Amphibian, an UL Agricultural and a Super-STOL G1, able to take off in less than 10 meters or 11 yards. This Super-STOL is currently under approval by Paul Prudent, supervisor of the testing centre on the Aérodrome de Gap Tallard.

G1 Aviation attends all major aeronautical meetings like Blois, Friedrichshafen, Le Bourget, Marrakech, Prague