UK two-seater fleet

On Sep 22, 3:23*am, James Thomson
wrote:
The threads on the Blanik AD and Club Training Gliders made me wonder about
the make-up of the UK fleet. * A quick search of the UK civil register
produced the following numbers:
ASK13 * 101 aircraft
ASK21 * 73
Duo Discus * 45
G103 * 29
Puchacz * 27
DG500 * 22
K7 * 17
DG1000 * 10
Blanik L13 * 9 (plus one L23)
Bocian * 8
PW-6 * 3

NZ looks a bit different:

Blanik: 11
Grob G103(A): 10
Duo Discus: 11
ASH25: 8
Grob Twin Astir: 7
ASK13: 6
K7: 5
Janus: 5
DG-1000: 3
Puchacz: 3
ASK21: 2
PW-6: 2
Stemme: 2
Grob G109: 2
DG500: 1


By far the most numerous are the various flavours of Grobs, followed
by Blanik and Duo.

A lot (all?) of the Duos are privately owned or used for commercial
rides not training.

The DG1000s are all club owned and used for training, as of course are
most or all of the K7, ASK13, Blanik and Grobs.

On Sep 21, 7:06*pm, Bruce Hoult wrote:
On Sep 22, 3:23*am, James Thomson

wrote:
The threads on the Blanik AD and Club Training Gliders made me wonder about
the make-up of the UK fleet. * A quick search of the UK civil register
produced the following numbers:
ASK13 * 101 aircraft
ASK21 * 73
Duo Discus * 45
G103 * 29
Puchacz * 27
DG500 * 22
K7 * 17
DG1000 * 10
Blanik L13 * 9 (plus one L23)
Bocian * 8
PW-6 * 3

NZ looks a bit different:

Blanik: 11
Grob G103(A): 10
Duo Discus: 11
ASH25: 8
Grob Twin Astir: 7
ASK13: 6
K7: 5
Janus: 5
DG-1000: 3
Puchacz: 3
ASK21: 2
PW-6: 2
Stemme: 2
Grob G109: 2
DG500: 1

By far the most numerous are the various flavours of Grobs, followed
by Blanik and Duo.

A lot (all?) of the Duos are privately owned or used for commercial
rides not training.

The DG1000s are all club owned and used for training, as of course are
most or all of the K7, ASK13, Blanik and Grobs.

I believe the largest single fleet of Duo in the world is at Glide
Omarama (6 according to their web site and add in a ASH-25 and other
more mundane gliders) and I'd count all those as for training -
advanced XC not primary, but its training.

Darryl

Originally Posted by Bruce Hoult

On Sep 22, 3:23*am, James Thomson
wrote:
The threads on the Blanik AD and Club Training Gliders made me wonder about
the make-up of the UK fleet. * A quick search of the UK civil register
produced the following numbers:
ASK13 * 101 aircraft
ASK21 * 73
Duo Discus * 45
G103 * 29
Puchacz * 27
DG500 * 22
K7 * 17
DG1000 * 10
Blanik L13 * 9 (plus one L23)
Bocian * 8
PW-6 * 3

NZ looks a bit different:

Blanik: 11
Grob G103(A): 10
Duo Discus: 11
ASH25: 8
Grob Twin Astir: 7
ASK13: 6
K7: 5
Janus: 5
DG-1000: 3
Puchacz: 3
ASK21: 2
PW-6: 2
Stemme: 2
Grob G109: 2
DG500: 1


By far the most numerous are the various flavours of Grobs, followed
by Blanik and Duo.

A lot (all?) of the Duos are privately owned or used for commercial
rides not training.

The DG1000s are all club owned and used for training, as of course are
most or all of the K7, ASK13, Blanik and Grobs.

Make that 4 Janus. One was totalled a while ago. Pilot and passenger essentially walked away. Left a wing up a tree and fuse went between trees. Doubtful that it will be fixed to my mind.

Add a Nimbus 3d to the list. To be used for advanced X/C traing

Colin