Back in 1996, I found that international information about ultralights was difficult to find. This was well covered at national levels, with national press, but more and more people were then willing to travel outside their national boundaries, and technology helping, were indeed flying abroad... not always knowing what they had to expect, or what rules applied when crossing a border.

ULM Europe was born in 1997, and would become the very first European website, at that time published in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian, with reports from exhibitions and shows all around Europe from Finland to Portugal, from UK to Ukraine. This was the first European mutilingual magazine about ultralights on the Internet. Became as well the first international multilingual forum.

Our ambitions were to provide news and reports to all european ultralight afficionados, and we indeed exceeded these expectations by far, with within 9 months readers from more than 120 countries...

At that time, the Net was not as commonly used as today, and by the end of 1999, we simply were out of cash: travelling all around, getting all articles translated into 5 languages, too few adds to cover the costs... We unfortunately had to stop.

As from year 2000, I decided to make this website evolve to a more conventional company, indeed keeping the high quality and independancy we were known to have, being for our reports or aircrafts' tests.

Today, we represent carefully selected companies, as we are extremely attentive to the after sales and services' aspects. They trust us to represent them, often at European level, and have built a reseller network that matches our philosophy. We participate in leading exhibitions in Western Europe, and keep a direct contact with the manufactures we represent, often participate directlyin the development of their products.

We prefer to remain with few, quality products, and our ever growing customer base has validated our views: they want, and find here, the level of service they are expecting. We answer questions and provide help whenever needed. Customer satisfaction is our motto.

Thank you, all friends, customers and partners that made this story possible.

Should you want to meet us, look at the INFO page: when we are exhibiting somewhere, it is indicated, and we will be delighted to meet you there.

Alain Lederer
CEO ULM Europe