The Scheibe Specht (English: Woodpecker) is a tandem seat training glider produced in Germany in the early 1950s.

The Specht was designed by Rudolph Kaiser, who around 1952 was dividing his time between Scheibe in Dachau and Schleicher in Poppenhausen.

Pupil and instructor sit in tandem in an enclosed cockpit, with the rear seat accessed by an under wing door.

[3] Necessarily wider in the cockpit area, the two types differed little, though the Sperber's span was 700 mm (28 in) greater and it was slightly (12 kg (26 lb)) heavier.

[2] These were used by gliding clubs for pilot training in place of the earlier, open, single-seat primary gliders like the Zögling and its descendants.