Rolladen-Schneider was a major glider manufacturer. It originally made rolling doors and shutters and was run by Willi and Walter Schneider based in Egelsbach near

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. Walter was a keen glider pilot and recruited a sailplane designer

Wolf Lemke Wolf Lemke is a designer of gliders who worked for Rolladen Schneider and after it was taken over in 2003, for DG Flugzeugbau GmbH. He was one of the student members of the Akaflieg Darmstadt who designed the revolutionary D-36 "Circe" in the ...

. The company built its first

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in 1967. The company produced the following gliders: * LS1 (Standard Class) * LSD Ornith (two seater prototype) * LS2 (15 metre Class, though before the present classes existed) * LS3 (15 metre Class) * LS4 (Standard Class) * LS5 (22 metre prototype only) * LS6 (15 metre Class with optional tips to give 17.5 metres or 18 metre spans) * LS7 (Standard Class) * LS8 (Standard Class with optional tips to give 18 metre span) * LS9 (18 metre self launching glider - 10 built) *

LS10 The Rolladen-Schneider LS10 is an 18 metre sailplane designed in Germany by Rolladen-Schneider. A prototype flew in 2003. After Rolladen-Schneider was placed in receivership the sailplane entered production by DG Flugzeugbau. Certification w ...

(15 metre Class and 18 metres Class) * LS11 (Two Seater Class) - prototype in development by

Akaflieg Akaflieg is an abbreviation for ''Akademische Fliegergruppe'', groups of aeronautical engineering students from individual German Technical Universities, pre and postwar, who design aircraft, often gliders. History Otto Lilienthal published his bo ...

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Receivership

Because of difficult economic times, the company went into

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in 2001. In 2003

DG Flugzeugbau GmbH DG Flugzeugbau GmbH is a manufacturer of sailplanes and other composite parts based in Bruchsal near Karlsruhe, Germany. History The business was founded in 1973 by Gerhard Glaser and Wilhelm Dirks as Glaser-Dirks Flugzeugbau GmbH. In 2018 ...

took over the assets of the company including the LS brand name and designs. The LS8 and

were produced by DG. The LS4, LS6 and LS11 are currently scheduled for production in Slovenia by

AMS Flight AMS Flight is a manufacturer of gliders, motorgliders and ultralight aircraft. It is based in Begunje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia. History In 1978 the first DG-100 license-built for the ELAN company, a single-seat sailplane, was built by a team o ...

External links

DG Flugzeugbau company website
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