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.
P edit
Pagliani edit
(Armando Pagiani)
- Pagliani Vittoria Armando Pagiani
Pajno edit
(Vittorio Pajno)
Paknys edit
(Antanas Paknys & A. Gysas)
- Paknys P-1 Uodas
- Paknys P-2 (Originally PAGY or PAGY-1 [some confuse P-2 with PAGY-2]
- Paknys PAGY-2 1938, fitted with 18–20 hp engine [sources vary as to conversion to or from motorglider]
- Paknys P-3 Nerija (Spit) [2]
- Paknys P-4 Termikas
Pánek edit
(Přemysl Pánek)
Pánka (glider constructor) edit
Paolini edit
(Sfredo Paolini)
Parker edit
(Raymond H. Parker / Richard H. Johnson)
Parker edit
(W.L. Parker)
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Pascoe edit
(E.A. Pascoe)
Pavelek edit
(František Pavelek)
- Pavelek P-1 1936 PAVELEK, František
- Pavelek P-2 1937 PAVELEK, František
Payne edit
(A. G. Payne)
Payne edit
(J. H. Payne / Imperial College, London)
Payre edit
(Georges Payre)
Peak edit
(The Bedford Sailplane Design Group / Peak Sailplanes Ltd. / P. Mitchelmore)
Peel edit
(Peel / Peel Glider Boat Corporation, College Point, Queens)
Pelton edit
(Alfred Paul Pelton)
Pelzner edit
(Willy Pelzner)
Penrose edit
(Harald J. Penrose)
- Penrose Pegasus Harald J. Penrose
Peregrine Sailplanes edit
- Peregrine Sailplanes KR-03 (Puchatek)
Perl edit
(Harry Perl)
Pešta edit
(František Pešta)
Peterson edit
(Max A. Peterson / Peterson Sailplane Corporation)
Petsuha edit
(A. I. Petsuha)
- Petsuha PAI-6 – (Пьецуха ПАИ-6)
Peulet edit
(Henri Peulet / Aéro-Club de Créteil)
Peyean edit
(K. Peyean)
Peyronnenc edit
(Pierre Peyronnenc)
Pfitzner edit
(Alexander L. Pfitzner)
Phoenix Air edit
(Phoenix Air sro., Letrohrad, Czech Republic)
Piana Canova edit
(Flaminio Piana Canova)
Piattelli edit
(Piattelli, Fidia)
Pierce edit
(Percy Pierce)
Peyret edit
(Louis Peyret)
Piermarcucci edit
(Société Piermarcucci / Marcucci, Pier)
PIK edit
(Polyteknikkojen Ilmailukerho)
- PIK-1
- PIK-2
- PIK-3
- PIK-3a Kanttikolmonen
- PIK-3b
- PIK-3c Kajava
- PIK-4
- PIK-5 Cumulus
- PIK-6
- PIK-7 Harakka
- PIK-12
- PIK-13
- PIK-14
- PIK-16 Vasama
- PIK-17a Tumppi
- PIK-17b Tintti
- PIK-20 Tiu
- PIK-22
- PIK-24 Pileus
- PIK-30
Pilatus edit
(Pilatus Aircraft)
Pilcher edit
(Percy Sinclair Pilcher)
Pimoule edit
(J. Pimoule)
Piotrków edit
(Piotrków Secondary School / Piotrkówa Uczniów)
Piper Aircraft edit
Pipistrel edit
(Pipistrel d.o.o Ajdovščina)
- Pipistrel Apis
- Pipistrel Apis-Bee
- Pipistrel Sinus
- Pipistrel Taurus
- Pipistrel Virus
- Albastar AS 18 – Albastar production
Pitrman-Pešta edit
(František Pitrman & František Pešta / Dílny PO MLL Praha, Maniny)
Planar edit
(Planar Industria Aeronáutica S.A. - Argentina)
Platz edit
(Reinhold Platz – Netherlands)
Ploszajski edit
(Jerzy Ploszajski)
Polikarpov edit
(Nikolaj Polikarpov / AMI)
Politechnika Warszawska edit
(Warsaw Polytechnic)
- Politechnika Warszawska PW-1 ULS
- Politechnika Warszawska PW-2 Gapa
- Politechnika Warszawska PW-2D – Mannschaft LKK – aka DWLKK PW-2D
- Politechnika Warszawska PW-3 Bakcyl
- Politechnika Warszawska PW-3V
- Politechnika Warszawska PW-4 Pelikan – Mannschaft LKK
- Politechnika Warszawska PW-5 Smyk – Roman Switkiewicz
- Politechnika Warszawska PW-6 – Roman Switkiewicz
Polyt edit
(Polyteknisk Flyvegruppe – Polytechnic flying club)
Poncelet edit
(Paul Poncelet / Société Anonyme Belge de Construction Aéronautique)
- Poncelet Castar – Poncelet, Paul – SABCA (Société Anonyme Belge de Construction Aéronautique)
- Poncelet Vivette – Poncelet, Paul – SABCA (Société Anonyme Belge de Construction Aéronautique)
Popa edit
(Ovidiu Popa)
- Popa OP-1 – (Ovidiu Popa)
- Popa OP-22 – (Ovidiu Popa)
Popiou edit
(George Popiou)
Porte-Pirie edit
(Lieutenant John Cyrill Porte and Lieutenant Pirie)
Posnansky-Fronius edit
(Herman Posnansky & Bob Fronius)
Potez edit
(Henry Potez)
Pottier edit
(Avions Pottier)
Poznań Aviation Circle edit
(Poznań Aviation Circle Motyl / Michal Bohattrew)
- Poznań Aviation Circle Motyl (Butterfly) No.20 – Second Polish Glider Contest 17 May – 15 June 1925
Pratt edit
(Percival Justin Pratt / AMSCO (Aircraft Manufactory and Supply Company)
Pratt-Read edit
Preiss edit
See also Schreder
Pretoria University edit
Princeton edit
ProFe edit
(Czech Republic)
- ProFe Banjo
- ProFe Duo Banjo
- ProFe D-8 Moby Dick
- ProFe D-8 Straton
- ProFe D-7 Mini Straton
- ProFe D-10 Tukan
Projekt 8 edit
(Projekt 8 I/S – Helge Petersen et al.)
Prue edit
(Irving Prue)
PSU edit
(Pennsylvania State University)
Purcell edit
(Thomas H. Purcell Jr.)
Pützer edit
(Alfons Pützer KG)
- Pützer Doppelraab
- Pützer Dohle
- Pützer Elster
- Pützer Motorraab
- Pützer SR.57 Bussard - de:Pützer Bussard
- Pützer MS.60
- Pützer MS.75
P.W.S. edit
(Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów)
Pyshnov edit
(V. S. Pyshnov / AVF – Akademiya Vozdushnogo Flota – air fleet academy (built at the Aviarabotnik glider section))
P.Z.L. edit
(Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze - State Aviation Works)
PZL Bielsko edit
- PZL Bielsko SZD-51 Junior
- PZL Bielsko SZD-52 (Amber 15 Crocus)
- PZL Bielsko SZD-54 Perkoz (Grebe)
- PZL Bielsko SZD-55
- PZL Bielsko SZD-56 Diana
- PZL Bielsko SZD-59 Acro
PZL Krosno edit
- PZL Krosno KR-02
- PZL Krosno KR-03 Puchatek – Jerzy Krawsczyk and Eugeniusz Pelczar
- Peregrine Sailplanes KR-03 (Puchatek)
PZL Mielec edit
- PZL M-3 Pliszka (Wagtail)
Notes edit
- ^ "j2mcl-planeurs". Team J2mcL. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ "Archived copy". www.lizdas.lt. Archived from the original on 24 November 2006. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Cynk, Jerzy B. (1971). Polish Aircraft 1893–1939. London: Putnam. ISBN 978-0-370-00085-5.
- ^ a b c Mrazek, James E. (1977). Fighting gliders of World War II. London: Hale. pp. 161-163. ISBN 978-0312289270.
- ^ a b c d Gunston, Bill (1983). Aircraft of the Soviet Union : the encyclopaedia of Soviet aircraft since 1917. London: Osprey. pp. 39–40. ISBN 978-0850454451.
- ^ Gugju, Ion; Gheorghe Iacobescu; ovidiu Ionescu. Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905 - 1974. Brasov. pp. 278–279.
- ^ Taylor, John W.R. FRHistS. ARAeS (1962). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1962-63. London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co Ltd.
- ^ "Projekt 8 Dolphin". Retrieved 12 July 2016.