The Sailplane Corporation of America was a US manufacturer of
sailplanes
A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the leisure activity and sport of gliding (also called soaring). This unpowered aircraft can use naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to gain altitude. Sailplan ...
founded by
Gus Briegleb
Gus is a masculine name, often a diminutive for Angus, August, Augustine, or Augustus, and other names (e.g. Aengus, Argus, Fergus, Ghassan, Gustav, Gustave, Gustafson, Gustavo, Gussie).
It can also be used as the adaptation into English of t ...
at a former US Army Airfield at
El Mirage Dry Lake
El Mirage Lake is a dry lake bed in the northwestern Victor Valley of the central Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California.
The lake is located about west-northwest of the town of Adelanto and north of Highway 18 in San Bernardi ...
in California to market kits and plans of his own designs. The firm's greatest success was the
Briegleb BG 12
The Briegleb BG-12 is a single-seat sailplane of wooden construction developed in the United States in the 1950s. It was marketed for homebuilding in plans or kit form, with over 350 sets of plans selling by 1978. The BG-12 is a conventional sai ...
wooden sailplane, but it also sold plans for Briegleb's earlier, wartime designs.
Aircraft
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Briegleb BG-6
The Briegleb BG-6 was a 1930s single-seat glider designed by William G. Briegleb to be both factory and homebuilt.
Development
The BG-6 is a high-wing single-seat glider with a steel-tube-and-fabric fuselage, wooden wings with fabric covering a ...
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Briegleb BG-7
The Briegleb BG-7 is an American strut-braced high-wing, single seat glider that was designed by William G. Briegleb and produced by the Sailplane Corporation of America as a completed aircraft and also as a kit.Said, Bob: ''1983 Sailplane D ...
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Briegleb BG-8 __NOTOC__
The Briegleb BG-08 was a 1940s two-seat glider designed by William G. Briegleb.
Development
The BG-08 was a high-wing tandem two-seat glider with a steel-tube-and-fabric fuselage, wooden wings with fabric covering and a metal-and-fabri ...
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Briegleb BG 12
The Briegleb BG-12 is a single-seat sailplane of wooden construction developed in the United States in the 1950s. It was marketed for homebuilding in plans or kit form, with over 350 sets of plans selling by 1978. The BG-12 is a conventional sai ...
See also
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Briegleb El Mirage Airfield
Victorville Army Airfield auxiliary fields were four airfields used during World War II to support the Victorville Army Airfield pilot training near Victorville, California, and Adelanto, California. After the war the Victorville Army Airfiel ...
References
* ''Jane's All the World's Aircraft'' 1977-78 edition, page 612
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States