The Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-5 is a German single-seat Standard Class sailplane designed and prototyped by students of Brunswick University.

[2] The Akaflieg Braunschweig or Akademische Fliegergruppe Braunschweig (English: The Brunswick Academic Flying Group) is one of some fourteen German undergraduate student flying groups attached to and supported by their home Technical University.

The pilot has an enclosed cockpit with a Plexiglass canopy and the landing gear is a non-retractable, unsprung monowheel with a tailskid.

[2] The first three variants, SB-5a-c detailed below, differed chiefly in their forward fuselages and canopy shapes and the last (SB-5e) by having an extended span[4] Luftfahrt-Bundesamt, the national civil aviation authority of Germany, has issued two airworthiness directives concerning the structure of the tail section of this glider.

The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch cited these directives in its investigation of an accident in Cumbria, England, on 7 August 2019, when the tail section of a model SB-5e broke away in turbulent air conditions, causing the loss of the aircraft.