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.
d'André Aérovoile (1908 glider) (Bernard D'Otreppe)
D'Otreppe biplane hang glider[2] (Fred Daams)
(Hans Klemm / Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft Werke - Daimler Aircraft Company)
(Drjavna Aeroplane Robotilnitsa – ДАР Държавната аеропланна работилница )
DAR Albatros Albatros
DAR Chuchuliga Chuchuliga
DAR Rilski Orel Rilski Orel [3]
DAR Zdravka Toprakchiev – ДАР Здравка Топракчиев [4]
DAR Zdravka Vekilski – ДАР Здравка Векилски
Lazarov Drangov – Zvetan Lazarov (Darmstädter Flugsport-Vereinigung )
Darmstadt FSV-2
Darmstadt FSV-2c
Darmstadt FSV-8
Darmstadt FSV-X (Dansk Aero Verkstad)
(Dart Aircraft Ltd)
(Bob Dart)
Davies Glider-1
Davies Glider-2 (Ken Davies & Alf Nicholls)
(P. Davis & F. Costin)
(Janusz de Beaurein & Edmund John)
de Beaurein-John 1909 glider[5] (de Glymes / SABCA - Société Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques )
(de Havilland Aircraft Co)
(de Havilland Aircraft Co)
(Louis de Monge & Daniel Montague)
(Charles de Rouge)
de Rougé Elytroplan Sigma (Luis E. Degasperi)
(Howard V. DeGrandi)
(Karl Dehn)
(Maurice Delanne)
(N.B. Delone)
Delone 1909 glider – Делоне 1909 Delta Sailplane Corporation [ edit ] (Ovidio Descole)
(Dessau F.V / Maschinenbau-Schule Dessau)
(Detroit Aircraft Corporation)
(Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug – German research institute for gliders)
DFS 38 Quo Vadis
DFS 40
DFS 42 Kormoran
DFS 54
DFS 194
DFS 203
DFS 230
DFS 230 V7 (a completely new design)
DFS 230 F
DFS 331
DFS B6, high-performance sailplane
DFS Bombenjäger
DFS E 32, sailplane
DFS Einheitsschulflugzeug (Standard Flight Trainer), glider, basic flight trainer (foldable tail)
DFS Fafnir
DFS Fafnir 2 São Paulo
DFS Fliege IIa (Fly), sailplane
DFS Ha III, high-performance sailplane
DFS Habicht
DFS Hangwind, basic trainer (twin-boom)
DFS Jacht 71 (Yacht), sailplane
DFS Kranich-II
DFS Kranich
DFS Maikäfer
DFS Olympia Meise
DFS Präsident (President), high-performance sailplane
DFS Reiher
DFS Rhönbussard
DFS Rhönsperber
DFS Motorsperber
DFS Schulgleiter SG.38
DFS Seeadler
DFS Sperber Junior
DFS Sperber Senior
DFS Stanavo, high-performance sailplane
DFS Weihe (DG Flugzeugbau GmbH)
(HOAC AG / Wolf Hoffmann Flugzeugbau AG / Diamond Aircraft Industries)
(Ormand Dieder)
(Flugzeugbau Heini Dittmar )
(The Condor series were built by several manufacturers)
Djurin Komarac I (Ustvari motorizovana Cavka - motorized Cavka glider) Dobahov Krymosoaviahim (Добахов ) (S. P. Dobrovloski)
Dohnálek D-1 Exp. 1922
Dohnálek D-3 Tyny 1925
Dohnálek Nina 1925 (Ursula Hanle)
Doktor Fiberglas H 101 Salto[7] (John Auguste Domenjoz)
Domenjoz glider
Domenjoz Planeur-Voilier[8] (Y. V. Domrachev)
Domrachev Leningrad – (Домрачева Ленинград ) Dorset Gliding Club [ edit ] (DOSAAF - Dobrovol'noe Obschestvo Sodesystviya Armii Aviatcii i Flotu - voluntary society for assistance to the army air force and navy)
(Douglas Aircraft Company)
(Jerzy Drzewiecki / Centralne Warsztaty Lotnicze )
Drzewiecki SL-2 Czarny Kot – Second Polish Glider Contest No.6 17 May – 15 June 1925 (Duster Sailplane Kits / Ben Jansson and H. Einar Thor)
(Gian Luigi Della Torre)
(Richard DuPont)
(J. W. Dunne)
(Dunning / Southdown Gliding Club)
(Dunstable Sailplane co.)
Dunstable 1939 glider – Dunstable Sailplane Company
Dunstable Devil – Dunstable Sailplane Company
Dunstable Hyper-Hols – Dunstable Sailplane Company
Dunstable Kestrel
Dunstable Primary
Dunstable Golden Eagle
Dunstable Goshawk (Břetislav Dvořáček)
Dzelzcelnieks glider
Dzelzcelnieks II
Dzelzcelnieks III (Stanislaw Dzalialowski & Mieczyslaw Dzalialowski)
By characteristic
Type Fuselage Manufacturer Engine number Range Use Research Rotor-powered
General Military Accidents / incidents Records