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ASW 27 — Alexander Schleicher ASW 27

Alexander Schleicher ASW 27
GLID
Photo via Wikipedia: Schleicher ASW 27
Year
Owner
Alexander Schleicher
Last seen
MTOW
600 kg
Range
0 nm
Seats
1
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Alexander Schleicher · ASW 27
Model overview

Fleet & certification

Built
169
Active
86
Origin
DE
Certifying authorities
FAA
Variants

Per-variant specifications

VariantEngineMTOWRangeCruisePax
AS29
AS29
600 kg1
GLID
GLID
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Type certification

The FAA paperwork

TCDS G05CE · 2 · issued 2018-03-01

The FAA-issued Type Certificate for this model is on file (TCDS G05CE), but we haven't yet extracted the structured spec values.

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Safety & ops history

Where to look next

Detailed safety & ops history coming soon — view this model's FAA Airworthiness Directives at FAA.gov.
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Alexander Schleicher ASW 27market & fleet intelligence

Registry, flight-tracking and market data on the Alexander Schleicher ASW 27 fleet — updated daily.

Fleet age

27 yearsmedian age

Of the 103 registered Alexander Schleicher ASW 27 with a known build year (61% of the 169 we track), the median age is 27 years.

Registration activity

5changed registration in 12 months

5 of the 169 registered Alexander Schleicher ASW 27 we track changed registration in the last 12 months (3% of the fleet), across 5 registration events. Registration changes include ownership transfers, re-registrations and address updates — not all are sales.

Fleet activity — last 90 days
Aircraft seen flying
2
Tracked flights
16
Tracked flight hours
4
Share of fleet flying
1%

2 Alexander Schleicher ASW 27 were tracked flying in the last 90 days (1% of the registered fleet), across 16 flights. Sprinkle flight tracking began May 2026; coverage is ADS-B-derived and not exhaustive.