what is it?
The Alisport Silent 2 is a single seater sailplane of Italian manufacture. It is of the FAI type DU Class glider. It is sold by Alisport ready-to-fly or kit-built as pure glider or self-launching glider.
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
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 13 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
no engine: No engine: it glides on rising air.
spec sheet
- first flight
- —
- number built
- 28
- role
- du class sailplane
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- makers
- Alisport
- engines
- none (glider)
- length
- 6.4 m
- wingspan
- 13 m
- height
- 1.3 m
- max take-off weight
- 300 kg
- top speed
- 220 km/h
- range
- —
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3274450, Wikipedia: Alisport Silent 2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.