Schweizer SGU 2-22
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The Schweizer SGU 2-22 is an American two-seat, high-wing, strut-braced, training glider built by Schweizer Aircraft of Elmira, New York.[2]
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SGU 2-22 | |
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A Schweizer 2-22E (TG-2) of the US Air Force Academy | |
Role | Training sailplane |
National origin | United States |
Manufacturer | Schweizer Aircraft Corporation |
Designer | Ernest Schweizer |
First flight | March 1946[1] |
Number built | 258 |
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The 2-22 was designed to replace the two-place training gliders surplussed at the end of World War II . Production was started in 1946 and it was produced until 1967, when it was superseded by an improved version, the SGS 2-33. From the 1940s until the 1960s it was the most numerous two-place training glider in the USA.[2][3]