What payload does a paramotor system carry?

Tandem and reinforced configurations can carry up to 300+ kg, including personnel, specialised equipment or light cargo. With reflex-profile wings the flight envelope reaches cruise speeds above 80 km/h at glide ratios of up to 7:1 for efficient ingress and egress. All systems can be combined with our emergency parachutes.

Why does foot launch matter operationally?

Because it removes the need for runways and prepared surfaces and allows operation from confined or improvised locations. Add to that a low radar and visual signature in sustained low-altitude flight, and a packed size that permits transport by vehicle, boat or helicopter, enabling discreet insertion and extraction.

Platform · manned, minimal logistics

Powered paraglider · foot launch

The paramotor combines ultra-lightweight design with operational flexibility and needs almost no logistics — no runway, no prepared surface.

Line drawing of a pilot with a paramotor backpack unit under the lines of a canopy

Experience from powered paragliding

Ultra-lightweight design, operational flexibility and a minimal logistical footprint make paramotors suitable for specialised defense, security and rapid-deployment missions. The systems draw on over 50 years of aerodynamic expertise and multiple world records in powered paragliding, and are engineered for both reliability and mission adaptability.

Pilot on a back-mounted engine unit with a cage guard flying low over grassland, the wing banked above him

Close frontal view of a pilot with helmet, back-mounted engine and leg cocoon above a closed cloud layer

Pilot on a back-mounted engine unit above flooded ground, with reed banks and mown fields beyond

Two pilots on back-mounted engine units flying low along a sandy cliff, surf at the lower right

What the platform can do

Five properties make it relevant for rapid deployment:

Low radar and visual signature through sustained low-altitude flight.
Tactical mobility: foot launch eliminates runways and prepared surfaces, including from confined or improvised locations.
Payload: tandem and reinforced configurations can carry up to 300+ kg, including personnel, specialised equipment or light cargo.
Flight envelope: reflex-profile wings reach cruise speeds of 80+ km/h and glide ratios up to 7:1 for efficient ingress and egress.
Transport: compact enough for vehicle, boat or helicopter — discreet insertion and extraction.

Cut-out side view of a seated pilot in a harness with a closed leg cocoon, engine unit and cage guard behind his back

Pilot in a powered harness over the sea, one leg still stretched out of the open leg cocoon

Pilot on a back-mounted engine unit flying low across freshly ploughed farmland

Powered wing tracking along a narrow sand spit with shallow turquoise water on both sides

Typical mission profiles

The platform serves reconnaissance and surveillance, rapid-response troop or equipment delivery, special forces insertion and extraction, and humanitarian relief in inaccessible areas. All systems can be integrated with our emergency parachute solutions.

Two people hanging together under a yellow and purple wing with an engine unit, above surf and shoreline rocks

View from above of three powered paraglider wings spread out over a grass strip, two pilots visible in the frame

Source: apcodefense.com (APCO Aviation), as of 25 September 2026.

Powered paraglider · foot launch

Experience from powered paragliding

What the platform can do

Typical mission profiles

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