The Mosquito Museum has the centre-section and nose of a Horsa glider.

The Assault Glider Trust Horsa

  Above: The Mosquito Museum Horsa Mk II. The picture of the cockpit is by Jo Mitchell and displayed on her excellent site. Click on picture for full size shot. This is a Mk II Horsa with the hinging nose.

Above: The Assault Glider Trust Horsa Mk I for comparison, taken on 7 November 2005.

  Left: Waco CG4A Hadrian glider displayed at the Silent Wings Museum in Lubbock Texas, USA. The American equivalent of the British Horsa glider, employed a relatively complicated tubular steel construction. It was used by British and American Airborne troops.

Right: No 671 was one of six squadrons to be formed in South East Asia Command to carry out airborne assaults using Gliders. This particular squadron was formed on 31 December 1944 by re-numbering No 669 Squadron, which had actually been formed on 16 November 1944, but at the wrong location. It later became part of No 344 Wing.

Training was carried out in preparation for planned operations in various areas of SEAC, but the Japanese surrender curtailed these and No 671 disbanded on 25 October 1945.

The two pictures above show the US Army Air Corps TG-3A Training Glider restored and flown by Ron Tuttle in the USA. The glider was originally built in 1942 by the Schweizer Aircraft Co and was returned to airworthy status following a long rebuild project. American glider pilots received about 8 hours of training in these before moving on to the larger Waco gliders. Ron flies this aircraft on weekly basis and says it still handles beautifully after all these years. The original color scheme attracts a great deal of attention and Ron is always answering questions about the WWII glider program. An amazing achievement Ron, thanks for permission to use the pictures on the website.

  Above: German DFS 230 Assault Glider at the Deutsches Museum Schleißheim, Munich. As used in the spectacular assault on the Belgian fortress at Eben Emael. Much smaller than the Horsa, but highly manoeuvrable and able to land in a very confined area