LH Aviation

The company was founded in 2004 by Sébastien Lefebvre as a manufacturer of ultralight single and two-seater carbon fibre aircraft.^[2] A prototype of the first airplane was created that year by Frédéric Hubschwerlenson and Lefebvre.^[3]

Their plane, the LH-10, has multiple versions including automated and training planes.^[1] The LH-10 was shown at the 2009 Le Bourget Paris Air Show.^[4]

In 2015 the company had about 50 employees in Villaroche, France,^[5] including one dedicated pilot.^[6]

Over the years the company raised capital from investors in different countries,^[3] including Mohsine Karim-Bennani from Morocco, who wanted to create a Moroccan subsidiary and a manufacturing plant in Casablanca. However the two sides ended up in court and the collaboration was cancelled.^[2]

Lefebvre left the company in July 2016.^[2]

After several years of insolvency, the company was placed in recovery in 2018, and judicial liquidation began in September 2019.^[7][8] The assets were bought by I-SEE Group, who commercialized the LH-10 and the LH-D as IC-10 and IC-D, respectively.^[9][10]

• May 2004: LH Aviation founded.^[11]
• September 2007: First flight of the LH-10 prototype at the Avia International Airshow.^[11]
• March 2008: Joined the Aerospace Cluster Activity at Melun-Villaroche.
• 2007: Exposure of the LH-10 prototype on the Champs Elysees during the Festival of Transport..
• July 2008: Attendance at Farnborough Airshow.^[12]
• June 2010: Financial and operational backing from Aeronautic Investment Fund Magellan Industries.
• June 2009, 2011, 2013: Participation in the 49th, 50th and 51st Paris Air Shows.
• October 2011: First formation: Saget Promotion Official delivery of the first two surveillance airplanes by the Air Force Benin.
• August 2012: First flight of the LH-10 Ellipse Surveillance Advanced version.
• 2012: Participation in Euronaval and Eurosatory.
• 2012: Recruitment of military competence internally, participation in the Paris Air Show.
• May 2013: First rocket launch performed from the LH-10 Ellipse.
• April 2014: Set up of the Moroccan subsidiary.^[13]
• December 2014: Use of the LH-10 by the French border police.
• January 2015: Creation of the Explorair 45.
• February 2015: Creation of the outsourcing department.
• 21 October 2018: Judicial liquidation ^[14]

The LH-10 Ellipse is for training and pilot training; it has a tandem configuration and a glass cockpit.

The LH-10 Guardian is intended for surveillance missions.

The LH-10 Elfe is a military aircraft with an airborne collision avoidance system.

The LH-D is an unmanned aerial vehicle made from carbon fibre. It has an OPV option.

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