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- 1. Scheibe SF 28 OE-9299: Richard Reisenberger at de.wikipedia.org· GFDL
what is it?
The Scheibe SF 28 Tandem-Falke (English: "falcon") is a German motorglider that was designed by Egon Scheibe in 1970 and which flew for the first time in May the following year. It was a development of the Scheibe Falke with (as its name suggests) seating in tandem rather than side-by-side as in the original Falke design.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 16.3 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 55 years ago, in 1971.
- Wingspan of 16.3 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1971-05
- number built
- 119
- role
- motorglider
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- makers
- Scheibe Flugzeugbau
- engines
- 1× Limbach SL 1700
- crew
- 1
- length
- 8.1 m
- wingspan
- 16.3 m
- height
- 1.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 610 kg
- top speed
- 180 km/h
- range
- 520 km
- ceiling
- 5,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2232481, Wikipedia: Scheibe Tandem-Falke (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.