List of tailless aircraft

A tailless aircraft is one which has no separate horizontal stabilizer or control surface, either behind or in front of the main wing.

List of aircraft

See also: List of flying wings

Type	Country	Class	Role	Date	Status	No.	Notes
Aériane Swift		Glider					Foot-launched
Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde	France & UK	Jet	Transport	1969	Production		SST
AeroVironment Wasp III		UAV
Akaflieg München Mü5 Wastl	Germany	Glider		1929
Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-13 Arcus	Germany	Glider		1988
Arup S-1	US			1932			Rounded "heel wing"
Arup S-2	US			1933			Rounded "heel wing"
Arup S-3	US			1934			Rounded "heel wing"
Arup S-4	US			1935			Rounded "heel wing"
Avro 707	UK	Jet	Experimental	1949	Prototype		Research for Avro Vulcan thick delta wing, 1/3 scale of Vulcan
Avro CF-105 Arrow	Canada	Jet	Fighter	1958	Prototype		Supersonic. Five completed.
Avro Vulcan	UK	Jet	Bomber	1952	Production		Subsonic.
BAC 221	UK	Jet	Experimental	1964	Prototype		Ogee wing. Modified version of the Fairey Delta 2.
BAE Systems Corax	UK	UAV		2004	Prototype
Baynes Bat	UK	Propeller	Transport	1943	Prototype
Boulton Paul P.111	UK	Jet	Experimental	1950	Prototype	1	delta wing
BOK-5	USSR	Propeller	Private	1937	Prototype		BOK - Byuro Osobykh Konstruktsiy
Briffaud GB-6	France	Propeller	Private	1955	Prototype
Brochocki BKB-1	Canada	Glider	Private	1959	Prototype	1
Charpentier C1	France			1935			Trimotor.[1]
Convair XF-92A	US	Jet	Fighter	1948	Prototype
Convair F2Y Sea Dart	US	Jet	Fighter	1953	Prototype		Supersonic flying boat.
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger	US	Jet	Fighter	1953	Production		Supersonic
Convair F-106 Delta Dart	US	Jet	Fighter	1956	Production		Supersonic
Convair B-58 Hustler	US	Jet	Bomber	1956	Production		Supersonic
Dassault MD 550 Mystère-Delta	France	Jet	Fighter	1955	Prototype		In modified form renamed the Mirage I.
Dassault Mirage III	France	Jet	Fighter	1956	Production		Supersonic jet. Many derivatives.
de Havilland DH.108 Swallow	UK	Jet	Experimental	1946	Prototype	3
DINFIA IA 38	Argentina	Propeller	Transport	1960	Prototype		Designed by Reimar Horten.
Douglas F4D Skyray	US	Jet		1951
Dunne D.1	UK	Glider	Experimental	1907	Prototype	1	Biplane. Failed to fly with pusher power module.
Dunne D.3	UK	Glider	Experimental	1908	Prototype	1	Biplane.
Dunne D.4	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1908	Prototype	1	Pusher biplane.
Dunne D.5	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1910	Prototype	1	Pusher biplane.
Dunne D.6	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1910	Prototype	1	Pusher. Failed.
Dunne D.7	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1911	Prototype		Pusher.
Dunne D.8	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1911	Operational	2	Pusher biplane.
Fairey Delta 2	UK	Jet	Experimental	1954	Prototype		2 built. First aircraft to exceed 1,000 miles per hour. Later modified as the BAC 221.
Fauvel AV.36	France	Glider	Private	1951	Homebuild	100+	and others by Charles Fauvel [2]
General Aircraft GAL.56	UK	Glider		1944	Prototype
General Dynamics F-16XL	US	Jet	Experimental	1982	Prototype	2	Cranked delta wing
Gotha Go 147	Germany	Propeller	Patrol	1936	Prototype
Granger Archaeopteryx	UK	Propeller	Private	1930	Prototype	1
Haig Minibat	US	Motor glider	Private		Homebuild	10+
HAL Tejas	India	Jet	Fighter	2001	Production
Handley Page HP.75 Manx	UK	Propeller		1943			pusher
Handley Page HP.115	UK	Jet	Experimental	1961	Prototype		sharply swept delta wing
Hoffman tailless	US			1934			Arup-type "heel wing"
Horten Aircraft HX-2	Germany	Propeller	Experimental	2018	Prototype
I.Ae. 34 Clen Antú	Argentina	Glider		1949			Designed by Reimar Horten and manufactured by the FMA.
I.Ae. 41 Urubú	Argentina	Glider		1953			Designed by Reimar Horten in Argentina.
Interstate XBDR	US	Glider		1944	Project	0
Kalinin K-12	USSR			1936			[3]
Kasper Bekas	US	Glider		1968		3
Kimura/Kayaba HK-1	Japan	Glider	Experimental	1939	Prototype
Kayaba Ku-2	Japan	Glider	Experimental	1940	Prototype
Kayaba Ku-3	Japan	Glider	Experimental	1941	Prototype
Kayaba Ku-4	Japan	Propeller	Experimental	1941	Project		Cancelled before it flew.
Kollman Composites Raptor							[4]
Lippisch delta	Germany	Propeller	Experimental		Prototype		Several types
Lockheed A-12	US	Jet	Reconnaissance	1962	Production		Mach 3 capability. Long forward-fuselage chines. Several derivatives, especially the SR-71 Blackbird.
Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA	US	Jet	Experimental	2000	Project		Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft
Marske Monarch
Marske Pioneer
Marske XM-1				1957
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet	Germany	Rocket	Fighter	1941	Production
Mitchell U-2 Superwing				1977
John K. Moody/Larry Mauro Easy Riser							[5][6]
Nike PUL 9	Germany	Propeller	Experimental	1990	Prototype
Northrop X-4 Bantam	US	Jet	Fighter	1948	Prototype
Northrop Grumman RQ-180	US	UAV	Stealth surveillance aircraft	2015	Prototype
University of Pretoria Exulans		Glider			Prototype		Stromburg wing.[7][8]
Saab 35 Draken	Sweden	Jet	Fighter	1955	Production		Supersonic jet. Double-delta planform.
Short SB.1	UK	Glider	Experimental	1951	Prototype	1	Aero-isoclinic wing.
Short SB.4 Sherpa	UK		Experimental	1953	Prototype	1	Aero-isoclinic wing.
Soldenhof So.A	Switzerland	Propeller	Private	1930	Prototype		Pusher.[9]
Tupolev Tu-144	USSR	Jet	Transport		Operational		SST
Vought F7U Cutlass	US	Jet		1948
Westland-Hill Pterodactyl	UK	Propeller		1920s-1930s	Prototype		Series of types
Weltensegler	Germany	Glider	Private	1921		1

See also

• Blended wing body
• Flying wing

References

1. "Charpentier C-1". www.aviafrance.com. 2003-08-21. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
2. Gliders of Charles Fauvel
3. Russian Aviation Museum
4. Kollman Composites Raptor Archived 2012-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
5. Easy Riser by Larry Mauro
6. Original easy riser by John Moody
7. University of Pretoria Exulans
8. Exulans using Stromburg wing Archived 2012-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
9. "The Soldenhof Tailless 'Plane; A Swiss Light 'Plane Two-Seater". Flight. 26 December 1930. Retrieved 29 October 2017.