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what is it?
The AB Flygindustri Fi-3 was a Swedish military transport glider designed and built during the Second World War for the Swedish Air Force, which designated it the Lg 105. A prototype flew in February 1944, and was followed by four production examples before the end of the war caused the programme to be abandoned.
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 82 years ago, in 1944.
- Top speed is 2.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 16.5 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
no engine: No engine: it glides on rising air.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1944
- number built
- 5
- role
- transport glider
- origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- engines
- none (glider)
- crew
- 2
- passengers
- 10
- length
- 9.7 m
- wingspan
- 16.5 m
- height
- 3.3 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,100 kg
- top speed
- 350 km/h
- range
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Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q10397525, Wikipedia: AB Flygindustri Fi-3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.