🪂 glider ✓ still flying
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Technoflug Piccolo (D-KMEI) 01: Huhu Uet· CC BY 3.0
- 2. Technoflug Piccolo HB-2130 engine3: El Grafo· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Technoflug Piccolo is a German high-wing, T-tailed, single-seat motor glider that was designed and produced by Technoflug of Schramberg. It first flew in 1980.
How to recognise it: no engine, long thin wings · 13.3 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 46 years ago, in 1980.
- Wingspan of 13.3 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1980
- status
- in production
- number built
- 120
- role
- motor glider
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- makers
- Technoflug Leichtflugzeugbau
- engines
- —
- wingspan
- 13.3 m
- top speed
- —
- range
- —
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1764611, Wikipedia: Technoflug Piccolo (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.