List of gliders (A)

This is a list of gliders/sailplanes of the world, (this reference lists all gliders with references, where available)[1] Note: Any aircraft can glide for a short time, but gliders are designed to glide for longer.

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List of gliders
By constructor name
Lists of aircraft

A

AAK (Akademski Aero Klub, Belgrade)
  • AAK Pionir IIa

AAS

(Ateliers Aéronautiques de Suresnes)

  • AAS Libération

AB Flygindustri

AB Flygplan

Abate

( U. Abate)

Abbott-Baynes Sailplanes Ltd

Abramov
  • Abramov BA-3M Sokol
  • Abramov VA-3/48 Cupidon 17m span
  • Abramov VA-3/48 Dniepr 13.5m span

Abrial

(Georges Abrial de Pega)

Abric-Calas

(Abric & Calas)

  • Abric-Calas 1909 glider[2]

ACBA

(Aéro Club du Bas Armagnac)

  • ACBA 3

AC Mulhouse Mure

(Aéro Club du Mulhouse)

  • AC Mulhouse Mure

ACS

(Aero-Club Suisse)

  • ACS Zögling

ACMN

(Aéro-Club des Montagnes Neuchâteloises)

  • ACMN Caps I - Aéro-Club des Montagnes Neuchâteloises

Adair

(Ronald Hamilton Adair, Clifford Gurr and H. Zechner)

  • Adair Altair

Adam

(Roger Adam)

  • Adam RA-01
  • Adam RA-02
  • Adam RA-03
  • Adam RA-08
  • Adam RA-09
  • Adam RA-10
  • Adam RA-10S
  • Adam RA-12
  • Adam RA-13

Addyman

(E.T.W. Addyman)

ADI

(Aircraft Designs Inc / Martin Hollman / Winther-Hollman Aircraft Inc.)

Adaridi

(Boris Adaridi)

  • Adaridi SK-24

Ader

(Clement Ader)

  • Ader 1873 glider

Adorján
  • Adorján Libelle

Advanced Aeromarine

Adventure Aircraft

AEA

(Aerial Experimental Association)

  • AEA 1907 glider

Aecherli-Farner

(Hermann Aecherli & Willy Farner)

  • D.D. Zögling
  • Aecherli Pfau 7
  • Aecherli Pfau
  • Aecherli HAFA-1
  • Aecherli HAFA-2
  • Aecherli HAFA-3
  • Aecherli HAFA-4
  • Aecherli HAFA-5
  • Aecherli HAFA-6
  • Aecherli HAFA-8
  • Aecherli HAFA-9
  • Aecherli Z-10

AER

(Aeronautica Rio)

AER Pegaso

Aerbul

(Aerbul s.r.l. / Horacio Bulacio Campos)

  • Aerbul HB-1 Club
  • Aerbul HB-2
  • Aerbul HB-3
  • Aerbul HB-4
  • Aerbul HB-5
  • Aerbul HB-6

Aériane

Aero Industries Technical Institute

Aero Vodochody

Aero-Club Suisse
  • Ae.C.S. Zögling

AeroJaén

(Aeronaútica del Jaén SA)

Aerola

(Also known as Aeros)

Aeromere

Aeromot

Aeronca

Aeros

see:Aerola

Aérostructure

(Aérostructure SARL)

Aerotalleres
  • Aerotaller E-38[5]

Aerotechnik

(designer: Karel Dlouhy)

AeroXpert

(AeroXpert, Hennopsmeer / Peter Cellier & François Jordaan)

  • AeroXpert AX-1

AGA

(AGA Aviation)

Agusta

(Giovanni Agusta)

  • Agusta glider

Ahrens

(Ahrens Aircraft Corporation)

Aiello

(Eugenio Aiello)

  • Aiello 1
  • Aiello 2

AII

(Aviation Industries of Iran)

  • AII AVA-101

Aircraft Cooperative Mechta

Air Energy

Air Est Services

Airdisco

(Aircraft Disposal Company)

Airmate

See: Schreder

Airspeed Ltd

AISA

(Émile Dewoitine / Aeronáutica Industrial S.A.)

  • Iberavia IP-2
  • Iberavia IE-02

Aizsardze
  • Aizsardze

Akaflieg Berlin

(FFG Berlin / Akaflieg Berlin)

Akaflieg Braunschweig

Akaflieg Danzig

(Akademische Fliegergruppe T. H. Danzig)

  • Akaflieg Danzig Boot-Danzig
  • Akaflieg Danzig Libelle

Akaflieg Darmstadt

Akaflieg Darmstadt/Akaflieg München

Akaflieg Dresden

Akaflieg Graz

(Akademischen Segelfliegergruppe Graz)

  • Graz G-20 Roland
  • Graz G-23 Fliegendes Ei
  • Graz G-25
  • Graz G-26
  • Graz G-27
  • Graz G-28 Mücke
  • Graz Graz
  • Graz Graz II
  • Graz Musger G-24
  • Graz Oswald
  • Graz Pagat
  • Graz PN-1 Benjamin
  • Graz Schöckelfalke
  • Graz Sturmvogel
  • Graz Vandale
  • Graz VL-1 Maulwurf I
  • Graz VL-1 Maulwurf II
  • Graz VL-2 Kef
  • Graz VL-3 Kauz
  • Graz Zögling Hugin
  • Graz Zögling Konrad
  • Graz-Musger Mg-19S

Akaflieg Hannover

(for Hannoverische Waggonfabrik gliders see:Hannover)

  • Akaflieg Hannover AFS 1 Schnecke
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH 2
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH 3
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH 4
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH 5
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH 6
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH 8
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH 10
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH 11
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH 17
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH 21 (Neukom Elfe S4d constructed by students)
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH-22[8]
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH-24[6]
  • Akaflieg Hannover AFH 26
  • Akaflieg Hannover Moritz
  • Akaflieg Hannover Spatz – built by Hannoversche Waggonfabrik A.G., Hannover
  • Akaflieg Hannover Strolch – Karl Bremer

Akaflieg Karlsruhe

Akaflieg Köln

Akaflieg Marcho-Silesia
  • Schlesien in Not

Akaflieg München

Akaflieg Stuttgart

Akaflieg Wien
  • Akaflieg Wien AFW-8

Akasiya Mokko
  • Shindo Cirrus 2

Akira

(Myahara Akira)

  • Akira 2C (日本式鳳2型)
  • Akira Brume de chaleur (日本式かげろう型)

AK Zagreb
  • AK Zagreb Borongaj

Akerboom-Schmidt

(J. Akerboom & J. Schmidt / Nijs & Van Driel)

  • Akerboom-Schmidt T-10 I
  • Akerboom-Schmidt T-10 II
  • Akerboom-Schmidt T-10 III
  • Akerboom-Schmidt T-10
  • Akerboom-Schmidt T-20

Älands Flygklubb
  • Älands Flygklubb glider

Alanne

(Pentti Alanne)

  • Alanne Motorlerche[8]

Albastar Ltd

Albatros

(Club Argentino de Planeadores Albatros / Alberto Rosmarin, Vito Antonio Ernesto Vignera & Jorge Ubaldo Pallich )

Albatros Vrabac
  • Albatros Vrabac A

Albini-Cella-Facciolo-Moltrasio

(Albini, Cella, Facciolo, Moltrasio)

  • Albini-Cella-Facciolo-Moltrasio Zögling biposto

Aldasoro-Suárez

(Juan-Pablo Aldasoro-Suárez & Eduardo Aldasoro-Suárez - Real del Monte, Estado de Hidalgo, México)

  • Aldasoro-Suárez 1909 glider

Alexander

(Albert W. Mooney / Alexander Aircraft Co, Colorado Springs (Colorado, USA)

  • Alexander B-1

Alfaro (glider constructor)
  • Alfaro ACA 1910

Alfieri

(A. Alfieri)

  • Alfieri AT-1 Alcyone

Alise (glider constructor)
  • Alise (glider)

Alisport

(Alisport srl, Cremella, Italy)

Allen

(Aeronautical Engineering Society, New-York / E. Allen & E.P. Warner)

  • Allen AES-1
  • Allen AES-2

Allgeier

(Josef Allgeier)

  • Allgaier Geier

Allied

(Allied Aviation)

Allievo

Allstar

(Allstar PZL Glider Sp. z o.o.)

Alpaero

Alpla

(Alpla-Werke / Alpla-Werken Alvin Lehner OHG)

Alsema

(Piet Alsema)

Altinger

(Raúl Altinger & Theo Altinger)

  • Altinger TA-1
  • Altinger TA-2
  • Altinger TA-3
  • Altinger TA-4 Lenticular
  • Altinger TA-5 Biguá
  • Altinger TA-6
  • Altinger TA-7 Yarará
  • Altinger TA-8
  • Altinger TA-12
  • Altinger TA-15S Lenticular
  • Altinger TA 24 Caracolero
  • Altinger-Bertoni Super Albatross[10]

Anczutin-Malinowski-Aleksandrowicz

(AMA - Andrzej Anczutin, Henryk Malinowski & Rościsław Aleksandrowicz / Université Technique de Varsovie & Ateliers de Construction aéronautique d'Antoni Kocjan)

  • AMA Motoszybowiec

AmEagle

(AmEagle Corporation, aka* AmEagle American Eaglet)

  • AmEagle Eaglet[8]

American Falcon
  • American Falcon (sailplane)

American Spirit (glider constructor)
  • American Spirit XL

AMF

(AMF Microlight)

AMS Flight

Amstutz

(L. Lergier & Blaser / E. Amstutz, H. Belart & H. von Travel, Bern)

  • Amstutz Thun

ANB

( Pytor Almurzin, Nikitin & Bogatov)

Andersson

(A.J. Andersson / Augsburger V.L.)

  • Andersson Datschi

Andrews

(Kenneth Edwin Andrews)

  • Andrews 1930 Glider

Andrews

(Kenneth Edwin Andrews)

  • Andrews 1930 glider

ANEC

(W. S. SHACKLETON / Air Navigation and Engineering Company)

  • ANEC 1

Anotchenko

(N.D. Anotchenko a.k.a. Anoschenko ND Macaque)

  • Anotchenko Makaka

Ansaldo

(José María Ansaldo)

  • Ansaldo Fabi

Antoni brothers Antoni

(Antoni brothers)

  • Antoni Volumano

Antonov

(Oleg K. Antonov / Antonov Design Bureau(OKB))

  • Antonov Standard-1 (Стандарт-1)
  • Antonov Standard-2 (Стандарт-2)
  • Antonov U-s1 (У-с1) – Uchebnyi (Учебный – "Trainer")
  • Antonov U-s2 (У-с2) – first version built in series – Uchebnyi (Учебный – "Trainer")
  • Antonov U-s3 (У-с3) – 1,600 built – Uchebnyi (Учебный – "Trainer")
  • Antonov U-s4 (У-с4), redesignated A-1 – major production version – Uchebnyi (Учебный – "Trainer")(3000 built)
  • Antonov U-s5 (У-с5)
  • Antonov U-s6 (У-с6)
  • Antonov P-s1 (П-с1) – Paritel' (Паритель – "Sailplane")aka Upar (Упар, portmanteau of uchebnyi paritel' – учебный паритель – "training sailplane")
  • Antonov P-s2 (П-с2) – Paritel' (Паритель – "Sailplane")aka Upar (Упар, portmanteau of uchebnyi paritel' – учебный паритель – "training sailplane") – licence built as the THK-4 in Turkey
  • Antonov B-s3 (Б-с3) – Buksirovochnye (Буксировочные – "Towed")
  • Antonov B-s4 (Б-с4) – Buksirovochnye (Буксировочные – "Towed")
  • Antonov B-s5 (Б-с5) – Buksirovochnye (Буксировочные – "Towed")
  • Antonov RF-1 Rot Front
  • Antonov RF-2 Rot Front
  • Antonov RF-3 Rot Front
  • Antonov RF-4 Rot Front
  • Antonov RF-5 Rot Front
  • Antonov RF-6 Rot Front
  • Antonov RF-7 Rot Front (red front)
  • Antonov RF-8 Rot Front
  • Antonov A-1
  • Antonov A-2
  • Antonov A-3 Molodv
  • Antonov A-7 aka RF-8
  • Antonov A-9
  • Antonov A-10 version of A-9
  • Antonov A-11
  • Antonov A-13
  • Antonov A-15
  • Antonov A-40 a.k.a. KT – Krylya Tanka – Flying Tank
  • Antonov E-153[13]
  • Antonov M-1
  • Antonov M-3
  • Antonov M-4
  • Antonov M-5
  • Antonov OKA-1 Golub ("Dove")
  • Antonov OKA-2
  • Antonov OKA-3
  • Antonov OKA-5 Standard-2
  • Antonov OKA-6 Gorod Lenina (City of Lenin)
  • Antonov OKA-7 Bubik
  • Antonov OKA-11 (PS-1 training glider)
  • Antonov OKA-12 (PS-2 training glider)
  • Antonov OKA-13 Chest Uslovii Stalina ("Stalin's six conditions")
  • Antonov OKA-14 DIP ("Dognat i peregnat") ("Catch up and overtake")
  • Antonov OKA-17 (RF-1 experimental glider) (1933)
  • Antonov OKA-18 (RF-2 experimental glider) (1933)
  • Antonov OKA-19 (RF-3 experimental glider) (1933)
  • Antonov OKA-20 (RF-4 experimental glider) (1933)
  • Antonov OKA-21 (apparently based on OKA-14) (1933)
  • Antonov OKA-23 RF-5 experimental glider (1934)
  • Antonov OKA-24 M-3 experimental glider (1934)
  • Antonov OKA-28 RF-6 experimental glider
  • Antonov OKA-29 M-4 experimental glider
  • Antonov OKA-30 M-5 experimental glider (1936)
  • Antonov OKA-31 BS-5 training glider (1936)
  • Antonov OKA-32 US-5 training glider (1936)
  • Antonov OKA-33 (LEM-2 motor glider)
  • Antonov Amur[14]
  • Antonov DIP
  • Antonov IP experimental glider
  • Antonov Golub
  • Antonov Staline 1
  • Antonov Staline 5
  • Antonov E153 Masha

Antykacap
  • Antykacap

Apogs
  • Apogs

Applebay Sailplanes

Ara

(Agence Rethéloise d'Aviation)

  • Ara 1930 primary

Archdeacon

(Ernest Archdeacon)

  • Archdeacon 1904 glider (1)[2]
  • Archdeacon 1904 glider (2)[2]
  • Archdeacon 1905 glider[2]
  • Archdeacon-Voisin 1905 glider

Armstrong-Whitworth

ARMV-2

(Atelierele de Reparatii Material Volant-2 – Pipera)

  • ARMV-2 CT-2 – Traian Costǎchescu
  • ARMV-2 OP-2 – Ovidiu Popa
  • ARMV-2 GP-2 – Octavian Giuncu & Ovidiu Popa

Armytage

(Norman Armytage)

  • Armytage 1929 glider

Arplam

(All Reinforced Plastic Mouldings / Leuvense university Aero Club)

  • Arplam Leuvense L-1[15]

Arsenal

(Arsenal de l'Aéronautique)

Arup

(Arup Inc (fdr: Cloyd L Snyder), 231 Lincoln Way, South Bend IN.)

Arzeulov

(K.K. Arzeulov)

  • Arzeulov A-1
  • Arzeulov A-2
  • Arzeulov A-3
  • Arzeulov A-5

ASC

(Advanced Soaring Concepts / Jensen Tor)

Ashfield

(R. J. Ashfield)

  • Ashfield Kl Biplane

ASUP

(Ugo Abate & Giovanni Pirelli / ASUP / Fratelli Visco, Somma Lombardo)

  • ASUP 1924 glider
  • ASUP GP-1

Ateliers Vosgiens
  • Ateliers Vosgiens 1909 glider

Aubiet

(Marceau Aubiet)

  • Aubiet 1922 glider

Auburn

(Robert J. Auburn)

  • Auburn Sun Spot

August

(Henry August)

  • August 1909 glider

Aurora

(Aurora Training Sailplane Project)

  • Aurora TBD

Auseklis
  • Auseklis (glider)

AVF

(Akademiya Vozdushnogo Flota - Air Fleet Academy)

  • AVF-01 Aral
  • AVF-03 Mastyazhart
  • AVF-04 Rabfakovets – АВФ-4 Рабфаковец
  • AVF-05 Mastyazhart-2 – АВФ-5 Мастяжарт-2
  • AVF-06
  • AVF-07 Strekoea-pechatnitsa – АВФ-7 Стрекоэа-печатница
  • AVF-08 Condor – АВФ-8 Кондор
  • Denisov AVF-09 Krasvoenlet
  • AVF-10 – АВФ-10
  • AVF-11 Komsomolets – АВФ-11 Комсомолец
  • AVF-12 KIM – АВФ-12 КИМ
  • AVF-13 Bis – АВФ-13 бис
  • AVF-13 Larionich – АВФ-13 Ларионыч
  • AVF-14 1924 URSS Planeur
  • AVF-16 Aeo – АВФ-16 ЭАП
  • AVF-17 Une Nuit – АВФ-17 Одна ночъ
  • AVF-18 Pionnier – АВФ-18 Пионер
  • AVF-19 – Бураго АВФ-19
  • AVF-21 Moskau
  • AVF-23 Krasnaia Presnia
  • AVF-34

Avia
  • Avia LM-02

AVIA

(Ateliers vosgiens d'industrie aéronautique)

  • AVIA X-A
  • AVIA XI-A
  • AVIA XV-A
  • AVIA XX-A
  • AVIA 11A (XIA ?)
  • AVIA 15A (XVA ?)
  • AVIA 22A
  • AVIA 30E
  • AVIA 32E
  • AVIA 40P
  • AVIA 41P
  • AVIA 50MP
  • AVIA 60MP
  • AVIA 151A
  • AVIA 152A

A.V.I.A.

(Azionaria Vercellese Industrie Aeronautiche – Francis Lombardi)

Aviad

(Aviad Francesco Di Martino)

Aviafiber

see:Farner

Avialsa

Aviamilano

(Aviamilano Costruzione Aeronautiche)

Aviastroitel

Aviatrust
  • Aviatrust Moskau
  • Aviatrust Rote Presnia

Notes
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  2. Opdycke, Leonard E. (1999). French Aeroplanes before the Great War. Atglen: SchifferPublishing Limited. ISBN 0 7643 0752 5.
  3. Mrazek, James E. (1977). Fighting gliders of World War II. London: Hale. pp. 37-42. ISBN 978-0312289270.
  4. "AC-21 Powered Sailplane". aeros.com.ua. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  5. "Aeronaves de la Aviación Naval Argentina a lo largo de su historia" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 March 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  6. Lambert, Mark; Munson, Kenneth; Taylor, Michael J.H., eds. (1991). Jane's all the world's aircraft, 1991-92 (82nd ed.). Coulson, Surrey, UK: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 978-0710609656.
  7. Schneider, Helmut (Dipl.Ing.) (1944). Flugzeug-Typenbuch. Handbuch der deutschen Luftfahrt- und Zubehör-Industrie 1944 (in German) (Facsimile reprint 1986 ed.). Leipzig: Herm. Beyer Verlag. ISBN 381120484X.
  8. Taylor, John W. R., ed. (1983). Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1982-83. London: Jane's Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-7106-0748-5.
  9. Akademische Fliegergruppe Stuttgart e.V. 1926 - 1976. 50 Jahre Akaflieg Stuttgart, (in German) (1st ed.). Stuttgart: Akademische Fliegergruppe Stuttgart e.V. (Hrsg.). 1976.
  10. Rizzi, Roberto. "El "Superalbatros" - Recuerdos y nostalgias". volaravela.com.ar (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  11. "sssssssssst-ein Chevron fliegt vorbei" (PDF). Flieger Magazin (in German) (89 001): 78–81. January 1989. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  12. Rumers, Noël. "AMF Chevvron 2-32C". Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  13. "Antonov E-153". www.j2mcl-planeurs.net (in French). 3 August 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  14. Taylor, John W.R. FRHistS. ARAeS (1962). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1962-63. London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co Ltd.
  15. John W.R. Taylor, ed. (1988). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1988-89. London: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-0867-5.
  16. Holswilder, Alex (1997). "Sailplane Directory". Netherlands. Archived from the original on 20 August 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  17. Thompson, Jonathan W. (1963). Italian Civil and Military aircraft 1930–1945. USA: Aero Publishers Inc. ISBN 0-8168-6500-0. LCCN 63-17621.
  18. "The A.V.I.A. LM.02 Dive-bombing Glider - A REAL WAR WINNER [sic]". italianaircraftofwwii.devhub.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2014.

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