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.
AAK (Akademski Aero Klub, Belgrade)
(Ateliers Aéronautiques de Suresnes)
Abramov
- Abramov BA-3M Sokol
- Abramov VA-3/48 Cupidon 17m span
- Abramov VA-3/48 Dniepr 13.5m span
Abric-Calas
(Abric & Calas)
- Abric-Calas 1909 glider[2]
(Aéro Club du Bas Armagnac)
AC Mulhouse Mure
(Aéro Club du Mulhouse)
ACMN
(Aéro-Club des Montagnes Neuchâteloises)
- ACMN Caps I - Aéro-Club des Montagnes Neuchâteloises
Adair
(Ronald Hamilton Adair, Clifford Gurr and H. Zechner)
(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
(Aircraft Designs Inc / Martin Hollman / Winther-Hollman Aircraft Inc.)
(Aerial Experimental Association)
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
Aerbul
(Aerbul s.r.l. / Horacio Bulacio Campos)
Aero Industries Technical Institute
AeroJaén
(Aeronaútica del Jaén SA)
Aerola
(Also known as Aeros)
Aérostructure
(Aérostructure SARL)
AeroXpert
(AeroXpert, Hennopsmeer / Peter Cellier & François Jordaan)
(Ahrens Aircraft Corporation)
(Aviation Industries of Iran)
(Aircraft Disposal Company)
(Émile Dewoitine / Aeronáutica Industrial S.A.)
- Iberavia IP-2
- Iberavia IE-02
(FFG Berlin / Akaflieg Berlin)
Akaflieg Danzig
(Akademische Fliegergruppe T. H. Danzig)
- Akaflieg Danzig Boot-Danzig
- Akaflieg Danzig Libelle
Akaflieg Darmstadt/Akaflieg München
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
Akira
(Myahara Akira)
- Akira 2C (日本式鳳2型)
- Akira Brume de chaleur (日本式かげろう型)
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
Albatros
(Club Argentino de Planeadores Albatros / Alberto Rosmarin, Vito Antonio Ernesto Vignera & Jorge Ubaldo Pallich )
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)
Alise (glider constructor)
(Alisport srl, Cremella, Italy)
Allen
(Aeronautical Engineering Society, New-York / E. Allen & E.P. Warner)
Allgeier
(Josef Allgeier)
Allstar
(Allstar PZL Glider Sp. z o.o.)
Alpla
(Alpla-Werke / Alpla-Werken Alvin Lehner OHG)
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)
AmEagle
(AmEagle Corporation, aka* AmEagle American Eaglet)
- American Falcon (sailplane)
American Spirit (glider constructor)
Amstutz
(L. Lergier & Blaser / E. Amstutz, H. Belart & H. von Travel, Bern)
ANB
( Pytor Almurzin, Nikitin & Bogatov)
(A.J. Andersson / Augsburger V.L.)
Andrews
(Kenneth Edwin Andrews)
Andrews
(Kenneth Edwin Andrews)
(W. S. SHACKLETON / Air Navigation and Engineering Company)
Anotchenko
(N.D. Anotchenko a.k.a. Anoschenko ND Macaque)
Ansaldo
(José María Ansaldo)
Antoni brothers Antoni
(Antoni brothers)
(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
Ara
(Agence Rethéloise d'Aviation)
(Ernest Archdeacon)
- Archdeacon 1904 glider (1)[2]
- Archdeacon 1904 glider (2)[2]
- Archdeacon 1905 glider[2]
- Archdeacon-Voisin 1905 glider
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)
Arplam
(All Reinforced Plastic Mouldings / Leuvense university Aero Club)
(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
(Advanced Soaring Concepts / Jensen Tor)
Ashfield
(R. J. Ashfield)
ASUP
(Ugo Abate & Giovanni Pirelli / ASUP / Fratelli Visco, Somma Lombardo)
- ASUP 1924 glider
- ASUP GP-1
Ateliers Vosgiens
- Ateliers Vosgiens 1909 glider
Auburn
(Robert J. Auburn)
Aurora
(Aurora Training Sailplane Project)
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
(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 Francesco Di Martino)
(Aviamilano Costruzione Aeronautiche)
Aviatrust
- Aviatrust Moskau
- Aviatrust Rote Presnia