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what is it?
The VFW-Fokker FK-3 is a single seat competition glider, built in Germany in the late 1960s. It had success at the Italian and Austrian national contests of 1968, resulting in a short production run the following year.
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 58 years ago, in 1968.
- Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 17.4 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
no engine: No engine: it glides on rising air.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1968-04-24
- number built
- 13
- role
- open class competition sailplane
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- makers
- VFW-Fokker
- engines
- none (glider)
- length
- 7.2 m
- wingspan
- 17.4 m
- height
- 1.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 400 kg
- top speed
- 270 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 Q17149035, Wikipedia: VFW-Fokker FK-3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.