Airship do Brasil

Short description: Company that is the only manufacturer of blimps in Latin America

Type| Private

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Industry| Aerospace
Founded| 2005; 21 years ago (2005)
Headquarters| São Carlos, São Paulo,
[ ⚑ ] : 22°00′07″S 47°52′04″W﻿ / ﻿22.001944°S 47.867778°W﻿ / -22.001944; -47.867778

Key people

| Marcelo Felippes
Products| Blimps

Airship do Brasil, commonly shortened to ADB, is a Brazilian privately owned São Paulo-based company that is the only manufacturer of blimps in the Latin America.[1] It manufactures the hardware and rigging for the Lightship and Spector brands of airships.[1] In 2018, Airship do Brasil and Buoyant Aircraft Systems International, a Canadian airships manufacturer, signed a partnership agreement to expand the industry.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Models
* 2 São Paulo Facilities
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Models

ADB was founded in 2005 by the former Brazilian Army officer Marcelo Felippes. The company's lightships (proprietary blimps) are the ADB-1 and ADB-2, as well as the ADB-3-3, The company has also developed captive surveillance balloons.[1]

In 2009, it launched the ADB-1 and ADB-2 series, radio-controlled unmanned airships.[3]

In 2017, it launched the largest airship ever produced by the company, and also the largest ever made in Latin America, the ADB-3-X01.[1] In december 2020, the model is going through the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil certification process.[4]

## São Paulo Facilities

The location has a 20,000-square-metre (220,000 sq ft) facility at São Carlos.[5]

## See also

* Santa Cruz Air Force Base
* Bartolomeu de Gusmão

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Mark Piesing. "Can a new airship unlock the Amazon?". BBC. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170711-can-brazil-bring-the-airship-back-from-the-dead.
2. ↑ "Winnipeg airship business signs MOU with Brazilian company". CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/airship-manitoba-brazil-mou-1.4571955.
3. ↑ Thiago Vinholes. "Além da Embraer: Conheça outras fabricantes que produzem aviões e drones no país (in Portuguese)". CNN Brasil. https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/business/alem-da-embraer-conheca-outras-fabricantes-que-produzem-avioes-no-brasil/.
4. ↑ Erich Samueth. "La empresa brasileira Airship inicia la etapa de vuelos de su dirigible ADB-3-3 (in Spanish)". infodefensa. https://www.infodefensa.com/latam/2020/12/10/noticia-empresa-brasilera-airship-inicia-etapa-vuelos-dirigible-adb33.html.
5. ↑ Júlia Merker. "Airship: R$ 200 mi em fábrica de dirigíveis (in Portuguese)". Baguete. https://www.baguete.com.br/noticias/22/09/2014/airship-r-200-mi-em-fabrica-de-dirigiveis.

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