The Aero Industries TG-31 was a 1940s American military training glider, designed and built by students at the Aero Industries Technical Institute as the Aero Industries G-2 and impressed into military service as the Aero Industries TG-31 on 29 June 1942.

Design and development

The Aero Industries TG-31 design was a high-wing sailplane design of wood-steel-fabric construction, with a single wheel aft of the nose skid. One G-2 sailplane (civil registration NC19965) was impressed into USAAF service on June 29, 1942 and allocated the designation TG-31 and the serial number 42-57171.^[1]

Operators

 United States

• United States Army Air Forces

Specifications

Data from ^[2]

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Length: 20 ft (6.1 m)
• Wingspan: 48 ft (15 m)
• Height: 5 ft (1.5 m)
• Wing area: 230 sq ft (21 m²)
• Max takeoff weight: 450 lb (204 kg)

Performancedive or glide speed