what is it?
The DG Flugzeugbau DG-800 series is a family of 15 metre and 18 metre single-seat gliders and motor gliders produced by Glaser-Dirks since 1993 and by DG Flugzeugbau GmbH after 1997. It is the successor to the DG-400 and the DG-600 models.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 18 m wingspan
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 35 years ago, in 1991.
- Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 18 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
no engine: No engine: it glides on rising air.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1991-12-06
- number built
- 416
- role
- 15 metre- and 18 metre-class sailplane
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- makers
- DG Flugzeugbau
- engines
- none (glider)
- length
- 7.1 m
- wingspan
- 18 m
- height
- 1.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 600 kg
- top speed
- 270 km/h
- range
- —
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1153389, Wikipedia: DG Flugzeugbau DG-800 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.