Starseed – premium paramotors, personal flight machines

Why Starseed® exists

It began when Trond was five.

An extraordinary experience would come to set the course of his life.

Flying was never just about altitude, speed or leaving the ground. It became a way of moving closer to what that experience had awakened – a quiet sense of connection that has since shaped many of Trond’s most important choices.

It is this experience, and everything it set in motion long before his first flight, that is the deeper reason Starseed exists. One day, Trond hopes to tell the story in full.

Until then, the influence of that experience lives on in every machine we build.

Four decades in the air

Starseed® was born from lived experience.

Trond Nyman Aarre is Head of Team Starseed and a Nordic pioneer in paramotoring. He first flew a paramotor in 1989, aged 17, and chaired the first committee responsible for testing, developing regulations and gaining official approval for the sport in Norway.

Having begun skydiving in 1987 and paragliding in 1988, he will have 40 years behind him in air sports by 2027. Today he is as active as ever and serves as head paramotoring instructor for Propellerheads, a Norwegian team of paramotor pilots.

Trond just before his first paramotor flight, 1989.

Archive film

The first year of paramotoring in Norway (1989–1990)

Our philosophy

Not all airframes are equal

A common misconception is that all paramotor airframes are more or less the same, and that the engine defines the experience. We disagree. The airframe affects posture, torque, balance, ground handling, transport, safety, comfort and the way the wing feels above you.

Starseed creates personal flight machines for pilots who understand that flying is about more than thrust, weight and numbers. Every Starseed product is built on the same conviction: a paramotor should feel calm, precise and almost invisible in flight.

This is what Starseed means: a paramotor that feels like an extension of your body, both on the ground and in the air. When you fly it, the machine responds to instinct, not commands. You stop operating it and start flying it.

The machines

Explore the Starseed® universe

Each product has its own purpose, but all share the same design language: clean geometry, sophisticated simplicity and respect for the flying experience.

Stellar 110

A compact, modular Climb Assist for refined, lightweight flying.

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Stellar 140

A full-size modular platform for powerful personal flight.

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X2

The titanium model that shaped the Starseed feel.

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Fuelbag

A front-mounted fuel solution for longer flights or as the only fuel tank.

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Pixie

Under testing

A hoop-free Pro model for experienced pilots, built on the modular Starseed Stellar platform.

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The Stellar platform

A platform, not just an airframe

With the Stellar platform, Starseed moves into modular personal flight machines. Built with robotic precision and designed as a clear departure from the limitations of welded frames, it allows each model to share the same underlying design logic while serving different pilot profiles.

At the centre is StarCore: the structural anchor that connects every part of the airframe, distributes forces and gives the platform its calm, integrated feel.

The platform exists for a reason beyond engineering. Starseed has always built its machines in small series, by hand, as applied art rather than as products. Modularity is how we keep that promise as the range grows: each machine still made with the same care, now able to grow and adapt with the pilot as preferences change, rather than be replaced.

On price

The price of building it right

A Starseed is machined in small numbers, to tolerances more common in the firearms industry than in air sports, and finished by the same hands that test-fly it. That is not a marketing decision. It is the only way we know to build a machine we would trust ourselves to fly.

So the price reflects the work, not the market. If we sell one a year, we are happy. If we sold a hundred, we would know we had done something wrong. It also means every part is engineered the same way: sophisticated in its simplicity, built for the highest possible reliability, and replaceable when needed, so the machine can keep flying safely for decades. A Starseed is meant to earn a place of honour: the kind of object that ends up on a pedestal in the living room, not lost in a garage.

This is not equipment. It is a machine you keep.