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PWS-101
🇵🇱 Poland ·first flew 1937· high performance sailplane
8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Bezmiechowa vitorlázórepülőtér, 1939, PWS-101 típusú vitorlázó repülőgép. Fortepan 31116: FOTO:Fortepan — ID 31116 : Adományozó/Donor: Vojnich Pál.· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. PWS-101 típusú vitorlázó repülőgép. Fortepan 31130: FOTO:Fortepan — ID 31130 : Adományozó/Donor: Vojnich Pál. archive copy at the Wayback Machine· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. PWS-101 típusú vitorlázó repülőgép. Fortepan 31128: FOTO:Fortepan — ID 31128 : Adományozó/Donor: Vojnich Pál. archive copy at the Wayback Machine· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. PWS-101 típusú vitorlázó repülőgép. Fortepan 31129: FOTO:Fortepan — ID 31129 : Adományozó/Donor: Vojnich Pál. archive copy at the Wayback Machine· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. PWS-101 11: Autor nieznany· Public domain
- 6. PWS-101 2: Autor nieznany· Public domain
- 7. PWS-101 3: Autor nieznany· Public domain
- 8. PWS-101: Autor nieznany· Public domain
what is it?
The PWS-101 was a high performance Polish glider first flown in 1937. One made the longest distance glider flight in Europe in 1938, gathering prizes for aircraft and pilot.
How to recognise it: mid wing · 19 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 89 years ago, in 1937.
- Wingspan of 19 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
no engine: No engine: it glides on rising air.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1937
- number built
- 12
- role
- high performance sailplane
- origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- makers
- Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów
- engines
- none (glider)
- length
- 7.3 m
- wingspan
- 19 m
- height
- 1.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 312 kg
- top speed
- —
- range
- —
- wings
- mid wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q60751184, Wikipedia: PWS-101 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.