Formed at Dachau, near Munich, in 1951 by Egon Scheibe,
who at first built gliders designed by Scheibe in Austria.
His Sperling two-seat light high-wing monoplane first flew
August 1955, and was developed with new wing and tail
as SF-23A and built in numbers until 1963. SF-24A
Motorspatz built from 1959. SF-25 Motorfalke licencebuilt
from 1970 by Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd in UK as
Type 61 Falke. SF-28A Tandem-Falke tandem two-seat
motorglider no longer offered. Currently available are the
SF-25C Falke 2000 and Rotax-Falke two-seat motorgliders,
and the SF-40 two-seat lightplane (first flown 1994),
the latter originally offered in A and B versions with tailwheel
undercarriages, but the latest version isthe SF-40-
C-Allround with a nosewheel undercarriage. SF-34B
Delphin now produced in France as the S.N. Centrair
Alliance 34 two-seat glider, while the SF-36 R two-seat
motorglider is also expected to go into production in France.
