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what is it?
The Rolladen-Schneider LS9 is an 18 metre single-seat motor glider launched in 2000 by Rolladen-Schneider. Production ended after just 10 gliders were built, when Rolladen-Schneider went into receivership.
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 31 years ago, in 1995.
- 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
- 1995
- number built
- 10
- role
- 18 metre-class motorglider
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- makers
- Rolladen Schneider Flugzeugbau
- engines
- none (glider)
- length
- 6.8 m
- wingspan
- 18 m
- height
- 1.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 525 kg
- top speed
- 270 km/h
- range
- 550 km
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2164001, Wikipedia: Rolladen-Schneider LS9 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.