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{{Short description|American powered parachute manufacturer}}
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| name             = Parascender Technologies, Inc.
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| type             = [[Finance:Privately held company|Privately held company]]
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| fate             = Out of business 
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| foundation       = 1989
| founder          = RB Brady and Teri Brady
| defunct          = September 2004
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| hq_location_city = Kissimmee, Florida
| hq_location_country = {{wipe|United States}}
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| industry         = [[Earth:Aerospace|Aerospace]]
| products         = Kit aircraft
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| homepage         = {{URL|http://home.iag.net/~para/}} - former location
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'''Parascender Technologies, Inc.''' (usually just referred to as '''Parascender''') was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Kissimmee, Florida, founded by RB Brady and Teri Brady in 1989. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of [[Engineering:Powered parachute|powered parachute]]s in the form of kits for [[Engineering:Homebuilt aircraft|amateur construction]].<ref name="Aerocrafter">Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', pages 339-340. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. {{ISBN|0-9636409-4-1}}</ref><ref name="Why">{{cite web|url = http://home.iag.net/~para/whybuy.htm|title = Why Buy From Us?|access-date = 8 April 2015|author = Parascender Technologies|year = 1997 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20031227061233/http://home.iag.net/~para/whybuy.htm |archive-date = 27 December 2003}}</ref>

The company seems to have gone out of business in September 2004.<ref name="Archive">{{cite web|url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040615000000*/http://home.iag.net/~para/ |title=Parascender Technologies |website=Internet Archive Wayback Machine |access-date = 8 April 2015 |date=2004}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The company produced a line of powered parachutes, including the single place [[Engineering:Parascender I|Parascender I]] introduced in 1989, the two seat [[Engineering:Parascender II|Parascender II]] introduced in 1990 and the [[Engineering:Parascender Para-Ag|Parascender Para-Ag]] Single seat [[Engineering:Agricultural aircraft|agricultural application]] powered parachute.<ref name="Aerocrafter"/><ref name="Why"/>

==Controversy==
The company's business practices were controversial. In December 2002 the Aero News Network (ANN) reported that the company had been the subject of "a number of lawsuits, criminal complaints, and a great many civil complaints to better business bureaus and State's Attorneys General", described the founder as a "convicted felon" and concluded "ANN strongly recommends that Parascender Technologies be avoided (like a cliche, or like the plague…) as a candidate for flight training, PPC dealership agreements, powered parachute equipment, or PPC airframe purchases. We simply have too extensive and persuasive a record of this company's false statements, frauds and other non-performance to remotely believe that there is anything about them that can be recommended."<ref name="ANN">{{cite news|url = http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=6f54c182-1bcc-47b1-a362-cc9b0b9911d9|title =  ANN Consumer Alert: Parascender Technologies Still Bad Bet - They're Still Doing It...|access-date = 8 April 2015|date = 2 December 2002| work = Aero News Network}}</ref>

== Aircraft ==

{| class="wikitable" align=center style="font-size:90%;"
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|+ align=center style="background:#BFD7FF"| Summary of aircraft built by Parascender Technologies
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Model name
! First flight
! Number built
! Type

|-
|align=left| '''[[Engineering:Parascender I|Parascender I]]'''
|align=center| 1989
|align=center| 
|align=left| Single seat powered parachute
|-
|align=left| '''[[Engineering:Parascender II|Parascender II]]'''
|align=center| 1990
|align=center| 
|align=left| Two seat powered parachute
|-
|align=left| '''[[Engineering:Parascender Para-Ag|Parascender Para-Ag]]'''
|align=center| 
|align=center| 
|align=left| Single seat powered parachute [[Engineering:Agricultural aircraft|agricultural aircraft]]
|-

|}

==References==
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==External links==
* - former location
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://home.iag.net/~para/ Company website archives] on Archive.org

[[Category:Ultralight aircraft]]
[[Category:Homebuilt aircraft]]
[[Category:Powered parachutes]]
[[Category:Companies (Engineering)]]
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