Contract Results
The winning contender for the original contract for the nine-seat glider was the Waco Aircraft Company. Their design became the Waco CG-3. Due to the limitations of the specification, the aircraft was not a success and the initial order of 300 was reduced to 100, with the intention to use them as trainers for the follow-on fifteen seat assault glider.
WACO's fifteen seat design was also chosen as the winner in the competition for the modified specification. This aircraft served with great success as the Waco CG-4. Almost 14,000 were built and it played a role in the July 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily, the American airborne landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944 and in other important airborne assaults in Europe and in the China-Burma-India Theater.
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