what is it?
The Scheibe SF-30 Club-Spatz (English: Club-Sparrow) is a 15 m class single seat sailplane built in Germany in the 1970s and intended for club use.
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 52 years ago, in 1974.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 15 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
no engine: No engine: it glides on rising air.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1974-05-20
- number built
- 8
- role
- single seat club class sailplane
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- makers
- Scheibe Flugzeugbau
- engines
- none (glider)
- length
- 6.1 m
- wingspan
- 15 m
- max take-off weight
- 295 kg
- top speed
- 210 km/h
- range
- —
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17146725, Wikipedia: Scheibe SF-30 Club-Spatz (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.