The ASW 28 is a Standard Class glider with a fifteen-metre span built of modern fibre reinforced composites.

The ASW 28 is a single-seat shoulder-winged composite construction sailplane with a T-shaped horizontal tailplane and 15 metre wingspan.

The structure is a complex composite of carbon, aramid and polyethylene fibre reinforced plastic.

This permits a light structure with the strength to carry large amounts of water ballast, thus permitting the widest possible range of wing loadings for weak and strong soaring weather.

It has – like its competitors Rolladen-Schneider LS8 and Schempp-Hirth Discus-2 – a version with wing extensions for the increasingly popular 18 metre Class, the ASW 28-18.