Glider Sales for last 15 Years?

Does anyone keep records on sailplane sales? I have been curoius about the number of the various types of gliders sold in the last 15 years.

Bill Snead

About 4,000 PW-5's have been sold in that time period.

Hey, it's way too many I think...

OK, here are some estimates covering the years 1988 - 2002:

DG Flugzeugbau DG-300 238 DG Flugzeugbau DG-500 235 Glaser-Dirks DG-600 113 DG Flugzeugbau DG-800 286 DG Flugzeugbau DG-1000 16

Grob G 103C Twin III 167

HpH Ltd Glasflügel 304C 62 Start + Flug H101 Salto 7

Rolladen-Schneider LS4 475 Rolladen-Schneider LS6 210 Rolladen-Schneider LS7 165 Rolladen-Schneider LS8 453 Rolladen-Schneider LS9 7

Scheibe SF 34B 12

Schempp-Hirth Janus 73 Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-3D 54 Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4 39 Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4D 71 Schempp-Hirth Ventus c 248 Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2a/b 140 Schempp-Hirth Ventus-2c 285 Schempp-Hirth Discus a/b 370 Schempp-Hirth Discus CS 298 Schempp-Hirth Discus-2 160 Schempp-Hirth Duo Discus 357

Schleicher ASK 21 393 Schleicher ASW 22 34 Schleicher ASK 23 50 Schleicher ASW 24 310 Schleicher ASH 25 205 Schleicher ASH 26 200 Schleicher ASW 27 201 Schleicher ASW 28 61

Stemme S10 160

SZD-42-2 Jantar 2B 10 SZD-48-3 Jantar-Standard 3 118 SZD-50-3 Puchacz 153 SZD-51-1 Junior 150 SZD-55-1 113 SZD-56 Diana 6 SZD-59 Acro 23

PZL-Krosno KR-03A 62

PZL-Swidnik PW-5 Smyk 255 Bielsko 1 PW-5 Smyk 10 PZL-Swidnik PW-6U 20

Swift S1 30

MDM-1 Fox 40

ICA IS-28B2 42

LAK-12 120 LAK-17 40 LAK-19 2 Genesis 26

Centrair Pegase 254 Centrair 201 Marianne 41 Centrair SNC-34C Alliance 42

Avia Stroitel Russia AC-4 65 Avia Stroitel Russia AC-5 31

LET L-13A Blanik 5 LET L-13AC 12 LET L-23 Super Blanik 305 LET L-33 Solo 91

VSO 10 Gradient 39

Total: 8260

Plus any I've missed out. . .

Would that mean that 4000 'buyers' have alos been sellers and have been buying and selling one or two PW-5's to each other?

Thanks Richard

You forgot DG-400 (?) and ultralight sailplanes Alisport Silent (about 40) Apis (about 10)

Rocco Caruso

The 4,000 figure counts attempted sales as well as actual sales, and also counts every time a PW-5 owner whishes he had never bought the damned thing.

Add to this also:

PW-ULS - experimental design (glider's mass = pilot's mass) PW-2 Gapa - open cockpit light glider PW-3 Bakcyl PW-4

I think the sum of them all should close in 50 gliders.

Thanks for the glider sales numbers. They are much higher than I would have