Scheibe SF-27

The Scheibe SF-27 Zugvogel V (English: Migratory Bird) is a single-seat Standard Class sailplane, designed and built in Germany in the 1960s.

[1] The wing of the SF-27 is built around a single beechwood boxspar, with plywood ribs and a leading edge torsion box.

[1] The fuselage is a welded steel structure covered, from nose to wing trailing edge, with a glassfibre shell.

The cockpit, within the glassfibre shell, has a single piece Plexiglas canopy, the pilot sitting in a semi-reclined position.

Scheibe also produced a motorised version, the SF-27M, with a 26 hp (19 kW) 4-cylinder Hirth F-102 A2 two stroke engine on a retractable mast above the wing behind the cockpit.