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The mission of the United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding
Association, Inc. (USHPA), a not for profit 501(c)(3) entity, is to "Ensure The
Future Of Free Flight." The term "Free Flight" refers to flight in unpowered
ultralight vehicles - Hang Gliders and Paragliders.

Part of fulfilling that mission is to ensure that insurance is available to
cover pilots, chapters, flying site landowners, instructors and flight schools.

Over the years, USHPA and flight schools have been able to find liability
insurance and professional liability insurance on the commercial insurance
market. In 2015, the commercial carrier that insured USHPA and some of the
largest flight schools in the U.S., announced that it was discontinuing the
insurance program.

In order to fill this insurance need, USHPA decided to self insure. USHPA
created a Risk Retention Group, together with the Professional Air Sports
Association, a not for profit 501(c)(6) entity, the Foundation for Free Flight,
a not for profit 501(c)(3) entity, and various for profit hang gliding and
paragliding flight schools, in order to provide insurance coverage for these
entities as insureds and their members, chapters and flying site landowners as
additional insureds.