Slingsby Hengist

Slingsby Hengist
Slingsby T.18 Hengist Mark I (DG676), on tow while with the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment based at Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorkshire, 25 April 1943
General information
TypeTroop-carrying glider
ManufacturerSlingsby Sailplanes
Designer
Number built18
History
Manufactured1942–1944
First flightJanuary 1942
Retired1946

The Slingsby Hengist was a British military glider designed and built by Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd. Like other British troop carrying gliders in the Second World War, it was named after military figures whose name began with H, in this case the Jute invader Hengist.