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This is a complete list of Second World War military gliders. Only vehicles that reached at least the prototype stage are included in this list.

Aircraft

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Aircraft Illustration Origin Type First flight Entered service Number built Notes
de Havilland Australia DHA-G1 Australia Transport June 1942 - 2 Prototype transport, six-passenger capacity.[1]
De Havilland Australia DHA-G2 Australia Transport March 1943 May 1943 6 Improved version of DHA-G1; used as a trainer.[1]
Blohm & Voss BV 40   Germany Fighter May 1943 - 6 Heavily armored bomber destroyer. Orders for 200+ cancelled.[2]
Blohm & Voss BV 246   Germany Bomb 1943 - c.1,000 Original guided-bomb version cancelled due to success of V-1;
reinstated as an anti-radar weapon but not used operationally.[3]
DFS 230   Germany Transport 1937 1938 1,600+ Standard Luftwaffe troop transport glider; nine-passenger capacity.[4]
DFS 331 Germany Transport September 1940 - 3 Heavy transport prototype; twenty-passenger capacity.
Cancelled in favor of Go 242.[5]
Gotha Go 242   Germany Transport 1941 1941 1,528 Standard Luftwaffe heavy transport glider; 23-passenger capacity.[6]
Gotha-Kalkert Ka 430   Germany Transport March 1944 - 12 Intended replacement for DFS 230; 12-passenger capacity.[7]
Messerschmitt Me 321   Germany Transport February 1941 May 1941 200 Very heavy transport; 130-passenger capacity.[8]
Junkers Ju 322   Germany Transport April 1941 - 2[N 1] Very heavy transport prototype.[9]
Hindustan Aircraft G-1 India Transport 1942 - 1[N 2] Very heavy transport prototype.[1]
Aeronautica Lombarda AL-12P Italy Transport 1943 - 16 16-passenger capacity.[10]
C.A.T. TM-2 Italy Transport 1939 - 1 Prototype with 10-to-20-passenger capacity.[1]
Kimura HK-1 Japan Experimental 1939 1 Tailless aircraft research prototype, acquired by IJAAF in 1940.[11]
Maeda Ku-1 Japan Trainer January 1941 September 1941 100 Twin-boom training/transport glider, 8-passenger capacity.[12]
Kayaba Ku-2   Japan Experimental October 1940 - 1 Tailess aircraft research prototype.[11]
Kayaba Ku-3   Japan Experimental February 1941 - 1 Tailess aircraft research prototype.[11]
Kokusai Ku-7   Japan Transport 1942} - 2 Experimental twin-boom tranport.
32-passenger/1 light tank capacity.[13]
Kokusai Ku-8   Japan Transport 1942} 1942 700 Standard Japanese transport glider; 20-passenger capacity.[14]
Yokosuka MXY5   Japan Transport 1942 - 12 Prototype 11-passenger transport.[15]
Yokosuka MXY6   Japan Experimental 1943 - 3 Proof of concept for Kyushu J7W.[16]
Yokosuka MXY8   Japan Trainer December 1944 1945 50 Trainer for Mitsubishi J8M.
IJAAF designation Ku-13.[17]

Soviet Union

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Sweden

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Turkey

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United Kingdom

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United States

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A Waco CG-4A glider

See also

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References

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Notes

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  1. ^ 98 additional Ju 322s were partially complete when the program was terminated.
  2. ^ Parts for 10 additional G-1s were produced but not assembled.

Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Wood, Alan (1990). History of the World's Glider Forces. Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 978-1852602758.
  2. ^ Donald, David (1997). The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. London: Orbis Publishing. pp. 143–144. ISBN 0-7607-0592-5.
  3. ^ Lepage, Jean-Denis G. G. (2009). Aircraft of the Luftwaffe 1935-1945. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7864-3937-9.
  4. ^ Green, William (2010). Aircraft of the Third Reich (1st ed.). London: Aerospace Publishing Limited. pp. 136–144. ISBN 978-1-900732-06-2.
  5. ^ Griehl, Manfred (2012). X-Planes: German Luftwaffe Prototypes 1930-1945. London: Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-783034-19-2.
  6. ^ Donald 1997, p.462
  7. ^ Lepage 2009, p.357
  8. ^ Donald 1997, p.625
  9. ^ * Smith, J.R. and Anthony L. Kay. German Aircraft of the Second World War. London: Putnam and Company Ltd., 1972 (3rd imp. 1978). p. 446-448. ISBN 0-370-00024-2
  10. ^ Mrazek, James E. (2011). Airborne Combat - The Glider War/Fighting Gliders of WWII. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, United States: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-0808-1.
  11. ^ a b c Wooldridge, E. T.; National Air and Space Museum (1983). Winged wonders: the story of the flying wings. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0874749663.
  12. ^ Mrazek 2011, p.344
  13. ^ Rottman, Gordon L.; Akira Takizawa (2005). Japanese Paratroop Forces of World War II. Elite. Vol. 127. Botley, Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-84176-903-5.
  14. ^ Rottman and Takizawa 2005, p.12-13.
  15. ^ Air Pictorial 1959, p.267.
  16. ^ Francillion 1979, p. 336.
  17. ^ Francillon, René J. Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1970 (2nd edition 1979). pp. 404-407. ISBN 0-370-30251-6.
  18. ^ Gunston, Bill (1995). The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft 1875-1995. London: Osprey (Reed Consumer Books Ltd). p. 82. ISBN 1 85532 405 9.
  19. ^ Popular Science, May 1943, An Amphibian Glider
  20. ^ Daves WarbirdsAero Web


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