Issoire Aviation, established in Issoire

Issoire

Issoire is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.-Geography:Issoire is located on the Couze River, near its junction with the Allier, SSE of Clermont-Ferrand on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway to Nîmes...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, 30 km (19 mi) from Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department...

, is an aircraft manufacturer founded in 1978 to take on the work of Wassmer Aviation

Wassmer

Wassmer was a French specialized woodworking company formed by Bernard Wassmer in 1905. It later became an aircraft manufacturer specializing in gliders. It was bought out by Issoire Aviation, a subsidiary of Siren, in 1978.-Aircraft production:...

. It was rebuilt by Philippe Moniot in 1995 and is today a subsidiary of the group Rex Composite.

Issoire Aviation creates composite materials, notably for aviation (such as components in the Airbus

Airbus

Airbus SAS is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Blagnac, France, surburb of Toulouse, and with significant activity across Europe, the company produces around half of the world's jet airliners....

, helicopters, the Eurocopter, and also the Mirage

Mirage (aircraft)

Mirage is the name of a series of delta-winged fighters and bombers that have been produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation, flown by the French Air Force, and widely exported to foreign counties.* Dassault Mirage III...

). It also produces composite light aircraft, the APM 20 Lionceau

APM 20 Lionceau

-References:*Jackson, Paul. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2003–2004. Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Information Group, 2003. ISBN 0-7106-2537-5....

 (2 seats), the APM 30 Lion

APM 30 Lion

The Issoire APM 30 Lion is a three-seat light aircraft manufactured by the French manufacturer Issoire Aviation. It is entirely built from composite materials, especially carbon fibers.-Specifications:...

 (three seats), and is developing the APM 40 Simba

APM 40 Simba

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 (four seats).

With the construction of the Lionceau, Issoire Aviation built the first all carbon airplane to be certified in the Very Light Aircraft (VLA) category.