sailplane manufacturer . for the spanish charter airline see albastar . albastar ltd type privately held company industry aerospace founded 1993 founder pavel poto nik headquarters begunje na gorenjskem slovenia products gliders website www.gliders albastar.com albastar apis albastar ltd also called albastar d.o.o. is a slovenian aircraft manufacturer founded by former elan employee pavel poto nik in 1993 . 1 it was originally based in zgornje gorje and now in begunje na gorenjskem . 2 the company specializes in the design and manufacture of gliders and light aircraft in the form of ready to fly aircraft plus the production of sub contract aircraft parts for other manufacturers . 3 4 5 the company has produced several designs of its own including the now out of production albastar a1 motorglider and the albastar apis sailplane . the current production aircraft is the albastar as self launching sailplane available as a 13.5 m 44.3 ft span fai 13.5 m class or 18 m 59.1 ft span fai open class sailplane . 6 albastar also has collaborated with other companies notably pipistrel on the development of the pipistrel sinus motor glider for which it completed the majority of the aerodynamic work . albastar continues to produce the sinus wings as well as the wings for the pipistrel virus and pipistrel taurus . 4 the company also produced propellers for ultralight trikes and wind turbine blades for electrical power generation . 4 aircraft edit summary of aircraft built by albastar ltd model name first flight number built type albastar a1 mid wing t tailed single seat motor glider albastar apis 2000 single seat sailplane albastar as single seat self launching sailplane references edit gliders albastar pavel poto nik . gliders albastar sailplanes . retrieved 28 december 2015 . gliders albastar contact sale information . gliders albastar sailplanes . retrieved 28 december 2015 . bertrand noel ; rene coulon ; et al world directory of leisure aviation 2003 04 page 53 . pagefast ltd lancaster ok 2003 . issn 1368 485x a b c albastar ltd 2012 . development project of the last decade . archived from the original on 13 february 2012 . retrieved 3 march 2015 . albastar 2013 . company albastar d.o.o. . retrieved 3 march 2015 . albastar 2013 . as 13 5 m fes fai class . retrieved 3 march 2015 . external links edit official website former location official website new location as of 2014 company website archives on archive.org v t e albastar ltd aircraft aircraft a1 apis sinus retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title albastar ltd & oldid 697160329 categories aircraft manufacturers of sloveniaultralight aircrafthomebuilt aircraftglidershidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia 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 sloven ina edit links this page was last modified on 28 december 2015 at 17 40 . 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