Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
The Canadian Air Cadets use the SW 2-33. A rag and tube fuselage with a simple all aluminum wing. Simple to make and maintain with enough performance to teach the basics of gliding. That is what an Air Cadet program needs, not some expensive fragile glass high performance soaring machine.
Schewizer ceased trading in 2012.
PS production of the SGS 2-33 ended in 1980.
No-one makes a similar glider these days. They are all glass, and provide a much better level of protection to the pilots in the event of a seriously bad arrival.