Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Glider manufacturers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 203 glider manufacturers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 3,027 professional contacts across them, including 1,195 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Bologna the largest hub.
This list covers glider manufacturers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026. Country and city lists for glider manufacturers follow the table.
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The 25 largest glider manufacturers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,592 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cirrus is the global leader in Personal Aviation™.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 172 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ICON Aircraft is a consumer sport plane manufacturer founded in response to the sport flying category created by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Van’s Aircraft, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1980 by Jim Richmond, CubCrafters’ roots are in the 80+ year history of classic grassroots aviation, but the company’s products and services are innovative and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Blackshape, we elevate the paradigm of aviation excellence, offering an unparalleled range of high-performance aircraft-from agile ultralight models to versatile general…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WACO Classic Aircraft is the world's only producer of NEW FAA and EASA certified open cockpit and enclosed sport biplanes, FAA Production Certificate holder.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aviation at its finest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die AutoGyro GmbH ist Weltmarktführer in der Entwicklung, Produktion und im Vertrieb von Tragschraubern.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bristell ultralight and light sport aircrafts BRM AERO, s.r.o.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blanik Aircraft CZ is a company with more than 50 years of history in aviation industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Paragliding gear and equipment since 1982.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dynamic, innovative and always ready to reinvent itself: this is Vittorazi Motors, a company born in 1984 thanks to the genius of its founder Vittoriano Orazi.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LXNAV is a company producing high-tech avionics for glider planes and light sport aircraft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lancair International pioneered advanced composite aircraft kits in 1984.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Glasair Aviation was founded in 1980 and is now one of the largest, most well-established kitplane manufacturers in the world, with more than kits in the field and some 1,700…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Legend Cub continues to be the most coveted American manufactured sport aircraft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Finesse Max est le spécialiste de l'aviation légère en France : distribution des avions sous régime LSA WT9 Dynamic (Aerospool) et Pipistrel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aircraft Manufacturer” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Walter Extra has always viewed aviation from his own special perspective.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DG Aviation is a company based out of Otto-Lilienthal Weg 2, Bruchsal, Badenwürttemberg, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SkyRunner, LLC is a privately held aircraft manufacturing company headquartered in Shreveport, LA, USA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Airplane Factory, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MONTAER is a global aircraft manufacturer developing a new generation of all-metal, high-wing aircraft for flight training, private ownership, and professional aviation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ultralight Concept is the manufacturer of the legendary Stampe SV4 RS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: glider manufacturers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names glider manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of glider manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name glider manufacturers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Glider manufacturers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 30, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among glider manufacturers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for glider manufacturers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “glider manufacturers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names glider manufacturers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among glider manufacturers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,195 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Glider manufacturers by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Glider manufacturers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names glider manufacturers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many glider manufacturers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 203 glider manufacturers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Cirrus, headquartered in Duluth, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most glider manufacturers?
The United States leads with 48 companies. Every glider manufacturers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most glider manufacturers?
Bologna leads with 2 headquartered companies, followed by Cremella (2) and Deland (2).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,195 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 203 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.