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The Frankfort CG-1 was a proposed
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transport glider to be built for the United States Army, none were built and the programme was cancelled.
Design and development
When the Army Air Corps started a glider development program in 1941 it ordered two types of transport glider from the
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, a nine-seat and a 15-seat glider.
The smaller glider was to carry a pilot and eight troops and the prototype was designated the XCG-1, the larger glider designated the XCG-2 was to have a pilot and co-pilot and carried 13 troops.
The company was busy with the production of the
TG-1
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training glider so the development of the two new types was slow but a static test XCG-1 was delivered to Wright Field in December 1941 for testing by the Army.
The glider failed structural tests and the Army cancelled the contract for both the CG-1 and CG-2.
Variants
;XCG-1
:Prototype nine-seat transport glider, one non-flyable static test example only.
;XCG-2
:Prototype 15-seat transport glider, not built.
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1940s United States military gliders
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