company industry aerospace founder jim marske headquarters marion ohio united states products gliders owner jim marske website www.marskeaircraft.com marske aircraft corporation is an american aircraft design firm founded by jim marske and based in marion ohio . the company specializes in the design of tailless gliders primarily for amateur construction . 1 2 3 jim marske s first design was the marske xm 1 constructed in 1957 when he was 19 years old . the design was an experiment and only one was constructed . the marske pioneer series first flew in 1968 and has been developed through the all composite construction pioneer iii model . the marske monarch is a tailless ultralight glider that was first flown in 1974 during the early heyday of hang glider flying . the monarch can be built as a powered self launching sailplane or as a pure glider depending on whether an engine is installed or not . 1 2 3 4 marske also collaborated with john roncz in 1992 on the design of the lak genesis 2 that was produced for a time in lithuania 27 having been completed . the genesis was the first production aircraft to use graphlite carbon rods for the spars . 3 4 aircraft edit marske pioneer . summary of aircraft built by marske aircraft model name first flight number built type marske xm 1 1957 1 tailless glider marske pioneer 1968 at least 17 tailless glider marske monarch 1974 tailless ultralight glider references edit a b said bob 1983 sailplane directory soaring magazine pages 15 46 & 122 . soaring society of america november 1983 . usps 499 920 a b bertrand noel ; rene coulon ; et al world directory of leisure aviation 2003 04 page 57 . pagefast ltd lancaster ok 2003 . issn 1368 485x a b c purdy don aerocrafter homebuilt aircraft sourcebook page 307 . bai communications july 1998 . isbn 0 9636409 4 1 a b marske aircraft corporation . about jim marske marske aircraft corp . retrieved 9 march 2015 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to marske gliders . official website v t e marske aircraft aircraft genesis ii monarch pioneer pioneer ii pioneer iii xm 1 people jim marske retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title marske aircraft & oldid 671568886 categories aircraft manufacturers of the united statesglidershomebuilt aircrafthidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 15 july 2015 at 15 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view