Civil Air Patrol Gliders

[Josh Snow]

Has anyone heard any updates on what CAP plans to do with their gliders? I noticed a couple of CAP owned Maule tow planes on Trade-A-Plane that were being “decommissioned” with the shut down of the glider program.

https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?make=MAULE&model_group=MAULE+MT7+SERIES&model=MT-7-235&listing_id=2453735&s-type=aircraft

[Lawrence Spinetta]

Sadly, CAP is getting ready to sell the entire glider fleet through a broker that has (to my knowledge) yet to be announced. Timing of that sale has also not been announced.  I've made several inquiries but not response.  As information emerges, it would be great if others could add to this thread.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 8:47 PM Josh Snow <joshs...@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone heard any updates on what CAP plans to do with their gliders? I noticed a couple of CAP owned Maule tow planes on Trade-A-Plane that were being “decommissioned” with the shut down of the glider program.

https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?make=MAULE&model_group=MAULE+MT7+SERIES&model=MT-7-235&listing_id=2453735&s-type=aircraft

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[Bret Hess]

CAP has a Aircraft For Sale that lists three auction brokers.  Two of them have pages to browse, but they are all power planes.   Maybe gliders would go to these brokers?

[Nicholas Kennedy]

About 20 years ago CAP was selling their  fleet of Blanik L-23's

We tried to buy one for Telluride Soaring

Jumped through a ton of hoops and paperwork

Total waste of time

Gov't Bureaucracy at its finest

Nick

MS

[Bret Hess]

Was that an auction, Nick?

[Nicholas Kennedy]

Bret

We never got to the  point  of how much ..

We were in touch with Durango Soaring and Salida Soaring who were also trying to buy one or 2.

Buried us in paperwork requests  and then goasted all of us after 3-4 months.

Nick 

MS

On Monday, May 18, 2026 at 9:24:17 PM UTC-6 Bret Hess wrote:

Was that an auction, Nick?

[David S]

It was a 'yes/no' question and you did not answer:  was it an auction?

   ...david

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[Nicholas Kennedy]

No one ever found out how or for how much they were looking for.

Auction? 

never came up, never got that far

Nick

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