The Pratt-Read TG-32 is a 1940s American military training glider, designed and built by the Gould Aeronautical Division of the piano manufacturer Pratt, Read & Company of Deep River, Connecticut, for the United States Navy.

[citation needed] The Pratt-Read PR-G1 was initially designed as a speculative effort to meet a United States pilot training program requirement that Charles Townsend Ludington and Roger Griswold II saw a need for when asked by James A. Gould, president of Pratt, Read & Company, as to what Pratt-Read could do to contribute to the war effort that was seen to be eminent.

[1][2] Following the war, three Pratt-Read gliders were used in a joint venture of four federal agencies to study severe flying weather.

In the 1950s the glider was used in a high altitude weather and flight condition investigation called the Sierra Wave project.

[2] The altitude gain of 34,426 ft (10,493 m)achieved on this flight has only recently been superseded by the Perlan Project [4] Two gliders, #31506 and #31507 were kept by the Navy for further testing.