Our history
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The founder of the company John Holstein, decided after 50 years to retire. A beautiful sunny day in May 2018, he was celebrated with an airshow containing aerobatics, helicopters, parachutes, live jazz, hot dogs and bubbles. Certainly, a memorable day to terminate an active and innovative life in aviation business.
Having the large helicopter manufacturers among our customers, we do not always know where in the world our equipment is used. One morning in 2014 the phone rang. It was a colonel from a North African country, who would like to express his gratitude for the safe and easy way
We designed and produced our new harness for helicopter rescue men. A very comfortable harness without shoulder straps, but constructed in a way that locks on to the hips preventing a slip through in case of an upside down position. 2011 the new lanyard system was added. Using this system
2004 LITE FLITE was approved EASA Part-145 Maintenance Facility. This year international SAR show in Brighton, UK lead to several new international SAR customers. 2005 we designed the “Split-Seat-Alpine” harness for helicopter rescue men. Safety and more comfort. 2006 we designed the “Sling-Safe-Strap” for external human sling loads under helicopters.
1995 LITE FLITE became approved JAR-145 maintenance facility. This year we also designed the “Triple-S System” (Self Securing System) for helicopter rescue sling strops. This unique system allowes the rescued person to secure himself during the hoist ride to the helicopter holding handgrips at the same time. During the rescue
1989 we moved into larger and better facilities at Kolding Airport, EKVD, in Vamdrup, Jutland. Because our activities became more and more aircraft related, we changed the company name into LITE FLITE. We represented the German aircraft factory STRATOS and for a number of years we sold the very nice
Being a member of the Parachutes de France Group we moved into larger and better facilities close to Roskilde Airport, EKRK. 1983 we were approved from the Danish Civil Aviation authorities to make seat belts and cargo nets for aircraft. Apart from our main activities with parachutes and seat belts,
The sole Scandinavian agency for Parachutes de France lead to the change of company name into SCAN PARA. Rapidly we grew to be the leading supplier of parachutes and related equipment i Scandinavia, having the skydivers as well as associations and governments as our customers. 1978 we designed the SLIMFIT
Company was founded in 1968 by John Holstein as a one-man operation at the shores of beautiful Roskilde Fiord. Holstein Marketing was the name and apart from manufacturing spray hoods and covers for the local boat owners, we represented a number of overseas factories for parachutes and related products. After