Euro-ENAER was a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 aircraft manufacturer. It was formed in 1996 and located in Den Helder

Den Helder

Den Helder is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Den Helder occupies the northernmost point of the North Holland peninsula...

 at De Kooy Airfield

De Kooy

De Kooy Airfield is an airfield south of Den Helder, the Netherlands, named after the nearby hamlet De Kooy. It serves as both a civilian airport under the name Den Helder Airport and a naval airport under the name Maritiem Vliegkamp De Kooy .Most movements on the De Kooy are made by...

.

Euro-ENAER came into existence after the Dutch company Aviation Maintenance showed interest in further development of the Chilean

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

 ENAER

ENAER

-History:The Maintenance Wing of the Chilean Air Force was formed in 1930 as the Maestranza Central de Aviación . On March 16, 1984, the wing was formed into company ENAER .In the early 1980s, an agreement with Piper Aircraft saw the then Ala de Mantenimiento assembling...

 Ñamcú (Chilean Spanish for "young eagle

Eagle

Eagles are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several genera which are not necessarily closely related to each other. Most of the more than 60 species occur in Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just two species can be found in the United States and Canada, nine more in...

", or "eaglet"). ENAER ceased developing the Ñamcú after certification

Product certification

Product certification or product qualification is the process of verifying that a certain product has passed performance tests and quality assurance tests or qualification requirements stipulated in contracts, regulations, or specifications...

 proved to be too expensive: Chilean certification was not recognized elsewhere, so the resulting airplane could not be sold outside Chile.

Collaboration between ENAER, investors and the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology , also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands...

 made founding Euro-ENAER possible. Certification of the aircraft and its components became the responsibility of the University.

The renewed aircraft was renamed Eaglet. The JAR-23 airworthiness certificate was issued July 13, 2001. Certification for design ownership and manufacturing rights were to follow, but it required more time than planned. As a result, Euro-ENAER ran into financial difficulties and filed for bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of an insolvent person or an organisation, that is, one that cannot repay the debts owed to creditors. In most jurisdictions bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor....

. The sole Eaglet prototype and all inventory were taken over by ENAER.