2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. X-26 sailplane: Service Depicted: Navy Camera Operator: ROY K. HEITMAN· Public domain
- 2. A left front view of an X-26 glider aircraft parked on a ramp - DPLA - 574191cee3546161aa541afba0cde2da: Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual Information Center. 1994· Public domain
what is it?
The X-26 Frigate is the longest-lived of the X-plane programs. The program included the X-26A Frigate sailplane and the motorized X-26B Quiet Thruster versions: QT-2, QT-2PC, and QT-2PCII. All were based on the Schweizer SGS 2-32 sailplane.
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 59 years ago, in 1967.
- Top speed is 2.0× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 17.4 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1967
- number built
- 7
- role
- research and training aircraft
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Schweizer Aircraft Corporation
- engines
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- length
- 7.9 m
- wingspan
- 17.4 m
- height
- 2.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 650 kg
- top speed
- 254 km/h
- range
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Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1760666, Wikipedia: Schweizer X-26 Frigate (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.