Ivo Boscarol

Ivo Boscarol , bornApril 1956, is the founder and CEO of Pipistrel, a producer of ultralight and light aircraft, based in Ajdovina, Slovenia. Boscarol is most known as an aircraft designer and entrepreneur.

Boscarol was born in 1956 in Postojna, Slovenia, at the time also part of Yugoslavia. His father August Boscarol, a machine engineer, spent several young years as a test pilot at the Aermacchi, an Italian aircraft manufacturer. Family lived in Ajdovina, a town in western Slovenia near which a small military airfield was located. After elementary and high school in Ajdovina Boscarol studied economy at the University of Ljubljana. From 1976 to 1986 he was involved in publishing, owned a studio, in photography , was an advertising manager of the student radio station in Ljubljana , a manager of several musicians and rock bands. Boscarol also organized several art photo exhibitions, including nudes. He introduced the badge concept and mass production to Yugoslavia, at the time unfamiliar in the country.

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