The following is a list of WIG or 'wing-in-ground'-effect craft, also referred to as water-skimming wingships or, in Russia, '

ekranoplan A ground-effect vehicle (GEV), also called a wing-in-ground-effect (WIG), ground-effect craft, wingship, flarecraft or ekranoplan (russian: экранопла́н – "screenglider"), is a vehicle that is able to move over the surface by gainin ...

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Australia

* Sea Eagle (WIG craft) - six-seater wing-in-ground effect craft

China

* DXF100 ( Tianyi-1) - 15 seater wing-in-ground effect craft, designed by China Academy of Science & Technology Development. In 2000, the model is for commercial sale in China. The first buyer of Tianyi-1 used the vehicle to carry tourists around

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. * Xiangzhou 1 - 7 passenger capacity wing-in-ground effect craft, 12.7 meters long, 11 meters wide and 3.9 meters tall with a maximum takeoff weight of 2.5 tons.

Europe

France

*Pennec Navion: Designed and built by Serge Pennec at Geovas, near Brest in Brittany

Germany

* Seafalcon http://www.seafalcon.net/ * TAF http://www.botec.org/wordpress/wir-uber-uns/?lang=en Germany, but GEV's are in Greece - Kavala at the Aegean Sea ** TAF VIII-1 two-seater Tandem Airfoil Flairboat Typ Jörg 1, built in 1987. This WIG craft has experienced about 100.000 km and is still in use in private property. ** TAF VIII-2, four-seater Tandem Airfoil Flairboat Typ Jörg II, built in 1983. Following the F&E and test period, Dipl. Ing. Günther Jörg was awarded with the "Phillip Morris Scientific Award" for the Transportation System for the future. ** Another TAF VIII-2, built in 1994 was given to a Japanese

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. ** TAF VIII-3, eight-seater Tandem Airfoil Flairboat Typ Jörg III, built in 1990. ** TAF VIII-4 twelve-seater TAF, Typ Jörg IV built in 1986 for coastal protection reasons.

Iran

Bavar 2 The HESA Bavar 2 ( fa, باور ٢) is a ground effect vehicle unveiled in September 2010 by the IRGC Navy. It is designed to have a small radar signature, and therefore be difficult to track on radar, to be able to remain undetected while carry ...

, a two-seater (allegedly) semi-stealth military GEV that entered active duty in 2010.

Korea

* ARON Flying Ship * Sungwoo Engineering Wing in the Ground Effect Ship * Wing Ship Technology Corp WSH-500 * Wing Ship Technology Corp WSH-1500

Russia

Civil WIG * Ivolga EK-12 * Aquaglide-2 Military WIG *

Beriev Be-1 The Beriev Be-1 was an experimental wing-in-ground-effect aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the 1960s. Design and development In 1956, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini approached the Beriev design bureau with a proposal for a Wing-In-Gr ...

- Experimental aircraft used in development of VVA-14 *

Bartini Beriev VVA-14 The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 ''Vertikaľno-Vzletayushchaya Amfibiya'' ( vertical take-off amphibious aircraft) was a wing-in-ground-effect aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the early 1970s. Designed to be able to take off from the w ...

- Amphibious anti-submarine aircraft, only prototypes were produced * KM "Kaspian Monster" - largest GEV in the world *

Lun-class ekranoplan The ''Lun''-class ekranoplan (also called Project 903) is the only ground effect vehicle (GEV) to ever be operationally deployed as a warship. designed by Rostislav Alexeyev in 1975 and used by the Soviet and Russian navies from 1987 until so ...

- Lun Class Ekranoplan *

A-90 Orlyonok The A-90 ''Orlyonok'' (Russian: Орлёнок, English: "Eaglet") is a Soviet ''ekranoplan'' that was designed by Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeyev of the Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau. The A-90 uses ground effect to fly a few meters above ...

- Orlyonok Ekranoplan *

Beriev Be-2500 The Beriev Be-2500 Neptun (Russian: Бериев Бе-2500 Нептун) is a super heavy amphibious transport aircraft that, as of 2007, was in design and development by Russian design firm Beriev. The maximum takeoff weight is estimated at 25 ...

- Beriev Be- 2500 (Future Plane) * Aqualet - New 2011 Russian development of Ground Effect Vehicle * Chaika A-050

Singapore

* AF8-001 (Air Fish) - WidgetWorks is developing the AirFish 8, previously known as Lippisch WIG, Flightship, or FS8. The AirFish uses an air-cushion to raise the vehicle and travels at speeds up to 80 knots. Currently still in prototype with one built and tested beginning in 2001. Assets of the prior owner were liquidated at auction.

United States

Boeing Pelican The Boeing Pelican ULTRA (Ultra Large Transport Aircraft) was a proposed ground effect vehicle, ground effect fixed-wing aircraft under study by Boeing Phantom Works. Development The Boeing Pelican ULTRA is intended as a Strategic airlift, large ...

Collins X-112 The Collins X-112 was an experimental two-seat ground-effect vehicle, designed by Alexander Lippisch in the United States in the early 1960s to test his thick reverse delta wing concept. Design and development Lippisch's development of his Aerof ...

* AirFish 3 and 8 respective 3 and 8 seaters by www.wigetworks.com * Regent Seaglider}

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Ground effect vehicles A ground-effect vehicle (GEV), also called a wing-in-ground-effect (WIG), ground-effect craft, wingship, flarecraft or ekranoplan (russian: экранопла́н – "screenglider"), is a vehicle that is able to move over the surface by gainin ...