ALPAERO is owned and operated by Claude Noin, a skilled composite-structures and wood-structures craftsman with over 20 years of design/build experience. Claude Noin is the son of a famous glider pilot, Felicien Noin, who was the first pilot to cross the Alps in a glider. He is an expert in the use of the latest technologies as well as the more traditional ones. In 1976 he founded Noin aeronautique and manufactured or repaired several airplanes, motorgliders, boats (single hull or multi-hulls), hang-gliders... ALPAERO is the trademark used by Noin aeronautique to manufacture and market the Choucas and Exel motorgliders on the international scale.

ALPAERO tightly cooperates with experts specialized in aerodynamics and structures, with the stringent JAR-22 as a guideline.

ALPAERO is located in Tallard, near the city of Gap, a very famous soaring spot in the French Alps, where many pilots come from all over Europe to enjoy the fine weather and the beautiful landscape. Thanks to outstanding aerial conditions, the Gap-Tallard site is today one of the premier locations for practising air sports. Several activities are located on the Gap-Tallard airfield, from skydiving to soaring, paramotor, aerobatics, helicopter services,... and the reputation of this site goes far beyond the European borders.