Welcome to Skylaunch

The world’s leading glider and sailplane winch manufacturer 

Skylaunch Winches

Skylaunch manufactures a range of glider winches, cable retrieve winches and special purpose winches and equipment. We also carry out refurbishments and upgrades to any make of winch and can supply a wide range of parts and accessories for club builds, refurbishments and repairs for all types of winch.

Manufacturing and re-engineering winches since 1991, we’ve supplied more than 200 winches to civilian and military customers in over 45 countries worldwide.

World experts in winches

Our clients

Servicing and training

Offering on-site servicing, repairs, upgrades and improvements to all winches including machines from other manufacturers.

We also train winch drivers, based on many years of professional winch driving experience totaling half a million launches.

Skylaunch servicing

About us

Skylaunch is a manufacturer of glider and sailplane winching systems with an exceptional service and support record. We also make a huge range of special purpose winches and equipment. Since 1991, we’ve supplied more than 200 winches to military and civilian customers in over 45 countries.

What our clients say

Skylaunch Aerochute Hessian 2

Browse and order through our online catalogue of parts and equipment for winches. We always have a large quantity and range of service parts, spares and cables and components on the shelf ready for immediate dispatch.

Latest News

two drum reengineered winch Elan Planeur

New E85 winch to France

We delivered and gave training with our fully re-engineered two drum glider winch to Elan Planeur in Normandy, France. The winch was re-engineered from an old Tost winch. This winch

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Skylaunch winch for military project

Urgent military trial

We were asked by the British military to produce two winch systems very quickly for a special project. The RAF Gliding and Soaring Association (RAF GSA) kindly lent us two

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