Skymaster Powered Parachutes was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Hartland, Wisconsin.
The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of kits for amateur construction under the US Experimental - Amateur-built aircraft rules and the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category.
In August 2015 ten examples of the Excel were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.
[1][3][4] From 2004 until the time of its dissolution the company had been working on a single seat powered parachute design for operation under the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.
Development included a version that would employ hand controls only for paraplegic pilots, but the aircraft does not seem to have entered production or received a formal designation.