industry aerospace founded 1990s headquarters el prado new mexico united states products kit aircraft website www.raven rotor.com raven rotorcraft also called raven redrives and raven rotorcraft & redrives inc. is an american aircraft manufacturer based in el prado new mexico and formerly of boulder colorado . the company specializes in the design and manufacture of autogyros in the form of kits for amateur construction and reduction drives for three and four cylinder geo metro and honda automotive engines for aircraft use . 1 2 the company produced a very simple single seat autogyro design in the 1990s the raven explorer i for the us far 103 ultralight vehicles rules . this was followed by the raven explorer ii two seater for the us experimental amateur built aircraft category . by the 2010s these were both out of production . the company is engaged in developing a new winged autogyro designated the raven rotor plane for the cargo search and rescue and aerial survey roles . 1 3 the company also produces complete aircraft engines for installation in homebuilt aircraft such as the raven 1000 ul . 4 aircraft edit summary of aircraft built by raven rotorcraft model name first flight number built type raven explorer i 1990s at least one single seat autogyro raven explorer ii 1990s two seat autogyro raven rotor plane pending none two seat winged autogyro references edit a b purdy don aerocrafter homebuilt aircraft sourcebook fifth edition pages 77 and 327 328 . bai communications 15 july 1998 . isbn 0 9636409 4 1 raven rotorcraft . welcome to raven rotorcraft and redrives . retrieved 3 april 2015 . raven rotorcraft . the shape of things to come . retrieved 3 april 2015 . bayerl robby ; martin berkemeier ; et al world directory of leisure aviation 2011 12 pages 242 243 . wdla uk lancaster uk 2011 . issn 1368 485x external links edit official website v t e raven rotorcraft aircraft autogyros explorer i explorer ii rotor plane aircraft engines 1000 ul retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title raven rotorcraft & oldid 669111555 categories aircraft manufacturers of the united statesultralight aircrafthomebuilt aircraftautogyros 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 languages add links this page was last modified on 28 june 2015 at 23 32 . 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