SINCE 1993

The company was founded in 1993 and is installed in Milly-la Forêt (Essonne) in a Industrial Zone since January 1998.
It owns its location and offices with an area of 750 m² built in 1997 on a 3 500 m² surface.

ACTIVITIES :

• Production and sales of remote controlled aircraft, most of them being fitted with gas turbine. These aircraft are exported all over the world.
• Production of small and medium size UAV for large companies.
• Large size CNC center, 5 axis (5m x 2m x 1.2m).
• Composite molding (glass fiber, carbon, kevlar, honey comb...).
• CAD design.
• French Defence Ministry authorisation to build and manufacture UAV.
• Electronic design for autopilot, ground station, telemetry, GPS systems...

THE AVIATION DESIGN TEAM

ÉRIC RANTET, CHAIRMAN AND FOUNDER OF THE COMPANY

SERGE DASSAULT VISITING OUR COMPANY

THE 2 SHAREHOLDERS :

Jacques RANTET : retired airline pilot, ex-military pilot with an Aulnat License, Lieutenant in the Reserved Forces, ex chief-pilot and managing director at Air inter.
14000 flight hours, Medal of Aeronautical, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

Éric RANTET : born in 1966, engineer in aeronautics.
Participated in the fine-tuning of the first micro turbine world-wide produced by the JPX firm.
He then created theCompany in 1993 with the exploitation of these small turbines in an up-coming market as a goal.
The Chairman and founder, Éric Rantet, has used his 30 years jet experience to design, produce and offer the best products on the market.

Using his knowledge as a qualified aeronautical engineer, Éric has conceived each model in the range with Efficiency, Simplicity and Originality.

Additionally, Éric has a very good experience with gas turbine engine, being involved with all test flights and development of JPX gas turbines for model airplane and UAV.
We are, therefore, in an excellent position to embrace the gas turbine in our hobby.
At the current time we lead in the technology of gas turbine powered models.
We are now using and selling the best gas turbines on the market.
We are AMT and Jet Cat dealer.

Since 1998, we have developed a military and industrial department. We are producing military targets designed for training for ground to air missiles. These targets are of course jet powered. We also design and produce small and medium size UAV for large companies, from 400 grammes to 150 kg.
Our research department includes engineers and technicians specialized in CAD using CATIA software.
We now own a large CNC 5 axis machining center for making molds or plugs from hard resin or aluminum block.
Our model makers laminate the large size models in our French factory.

Now all our jet powered models benefit from our unique experience in military UAV.

ARF MODELS :

• Our product line now includes ARF models and pre built kits.
• ARF models are produced exclusively for us by our subcontractor and partner in the Czech Republic.
• We don't produce any copy from other manufacturer, all our products are original models and are designed in France.
• All models are fully composite made with high quality epoxy and painted in mold.
• All scale models include scale details as panel lines, rivets, hatches engraved into the surface.
• All quality plywood bulkeads are glued in all models.
• All models have plug in wings, stabs and fin and fuselage in 2 parts for an easier assembling and transport.
• All necessary hardware are included in all ARF jets.
• Instruction book in english are supplied with all our models, with step by step assembling instruction, CG position and control surface throws.

THINK SIMPLICITY :

All our models can be summed up in one word: Simplicity !
All of them have been designed specifically for ease and simplicity of assembly.
To reduce weight, the parts in the models have been reduced to a minimum. Consequently, the maintenance is simplified, performance enhanced and more time to fly, fly, fly...
For ease of use and transport, all models have plug-in wings.

OUR REFERENCES :

• Dassault Aviation
• Onera
• Thales
• Sagem
• CNES
• Armée de Terre
• Kawasaki Heavy Industry
• And thousands of customers from 30 different countries : The US, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, The Dominican republic, Ireland, Great-Britain, Norway, Swede, Finland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Swiss, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Tunisia, Cyprus, The United Arabs Emirates, Kuwait, South Africa, The Reunion Isles, Hong-Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Caledonia and New-Zealand.).

AVIATION DESIGN wishes you "Happy Flying" with our models.

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The company was founded in 1993 and is installed in Milly-la Forêt...

SINCE 1993