APCO has been involved in the paragliding industry from the very beginning. Anatoly Cohn, the company’s owner and founder, started in hang gliding, designing and building gliders from 1974 with Agur Gliders until 1982 when he founded APCO. He quickly realized that paragliding was the direction for sport flying and concentrated on developing quality gliders at a competitive price. Since that time the company has steadily grown, employing now 60 people and produces thousands of paragliders, harnesses and parachute reserve systems every year.
The first paraglider produced by APCO was the 7 or 9 cell System K, staring in 1986. By 1996, a mere ten years later, APCO was producing an average of 3 new models a year and had already picked up 6 world records on its wings. A trend which was to continue into the next decade. By the beginning of 2006 APCO had brought out more than 40 models of paragliders and now has 11 world records set on APCO wings, an achievement yet to be equaled by any other paragliding manufacturer.
Gallery
Historic Images by Paulo Pinto - Brazil (~1990 - 2000)
Achievements
World Record Type: Paragliding
Distance
Date
Pilot
Wing
Open Distance via turnpoint
109.32 km
1991/08/08
Willi Muller
Hilite III
Declaired Goal
146.22 km
1992/07/11
Chris Muller
Astra 30
Height Gain
3671.7m
1992/08/18
Sean Dougherty
Astra 27
Open Distance
283.85 km
1992/12/31
Alex Louw
Astra 30C
Triangle Speed Run 25km
16.85 km/h
1994/07/28
Eric Oddy
Supra 25
Declared Goal
251.82
1994/12/18
Alex Louw
Xtra 30
Tandem Out & Return
104.2
1999/01/25
Howard Travers
Futura 42
Tandem Speed Run 100km Out & Return
24.59 km/h
1999/01/25
Howard Travers
Futura 42
Tandem Open Distance
213.7 km
1999/12/02
Andre Fleury
Futura 42
Tandem Speed Run 25km Triangle
24.31 km/h
2000/08/14
Mark Hayman
Futura 42
Closed Circuit Triangle
222.4 km
2017/06/11
PAULO SEABRA
Lift S
Distance over a closed circuit without landing (FAI triangle)
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APCO has been involved in the paragliding industry from the very beginning. Anatoly Cohn, the company’s owner and founder, started in hang gliding, designing and building gliders from 1974 with Agur Gliders until 1982 when he founded APCO. He quickly realized that paragliding was the direction for sport flying and concentrated on developing quality gliders at a competitive price. Since that time the company has steadily grown, employing now 60 people and produces thousands of paragliders, harnesses and parachute reserve systems every year.
The first paraglider produced by APCO was the 7 or 9 cell System K, staring in 1986. By 1996, a mere ten years later, APCO was producing an average of 3 new models a year and had already picked up 6 world records on its wings. A trend which was to continue into the next decade. By the beginning of 2006 APCO had brought out more than 40 models of paragliders and now has 11 world records set on APCO wings, an achievement yet to be equaled by any other paragliding manufacturer.