List of tailless aircraft

A tailless aircraft is one which has no separate horizontal stabilizer or control surface, either behind or in front of the main wing.

Type	Country	Class	Role	Date	Status	No.	Notes
Aériane Swift	US	Glider		1989		n/a	Foot-launched.
Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde	France & UK	Jet	Transport	1969	Production	20	SST.
AeroVironment Wasp III	US	Propeller	UAV	2007		n/a	Date of service entry with USAF
Akaflieg München Mü5 Wastl	Germany	Glider	Experimental	1929	Prototype	1
Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-13 Arcus	Germany	Glider	Experimental	1988	Prototype	1
Antonov E-153	USSR	Jet	Fighter	1947	Prototype	1
Arup S-1	US	Propeller	Experimental	1932	Prototype	1	Rounded "heel wing".
Arup S-2	US	Propeller	Experimental	1933	Prototype	1	Rounded "heel wing".
Arup S-3	US	Propeller	Experimental	1934	Prototype	1	Rounded "heel wing".
Arup S-4	US	Propeller	Experimental	1935	Prototype	1	Rounded "heel wing".
Avro 707	UK	Jet	Experimental	1949	Prototype	5	Research for Avro Vulcan thick delta wing, 1/3 scale of Vulcan.
Avro CF-105 Arrow	Canada	Jet	Fighter	1958	Prototype	5	Supersonic.
Avro Vulcan	UK	Jet	Bomber	1952	Production	136	Subsonic.
BAC 221	UK	Jet	Experimental	1964	Prototype	2	Ogee wing. Modified version of the Fairey Delta 2.
BAE Systems Corax	UK	Jet	UAV	2004	Prototype	n/a
Baynes Bat	UK	Propeller	Transport	1943	Prototype	1
Boulton Paul P.111	UK	Jet	Experimental	1950	Prototype	1	Delta wing.
Cheranovskii BICh-26^[1]^[2]	USSR	Jet	Fighter	1948	Prototype	n/a
Chizhevski BOK-5	USSR	Propeller	Private	1937	Prototype	1
Briffaud GB-6	France	Propeller	Private	1955	Prototype	1
Brochocki BKB-1	Canada	Glider	Private	1959	Prototype	1
Charpentier C1	France	Propeller	Private	1934	Prototype	1	Trimotor.^[3]
Convair XF-92A	US	Jet	Fighter	1948	Prototype	1
Convair F2Y Sea Dart	US	Jet	Fighter	1953	Prototype	5	Supersonic flying boat.
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger	US	Jet	Fighter	1953	Production	1,000	Supersonic.
Convair F-106 Delta Dart	US	Jet	Fighter	1956	Production	342	Supersonic.
Convair B-58 Hustler	US	Jet	Bomber	1956	Production	116	Supersonic.
Dassault MD 550 Mystère-Delta	France	Jet	Fighter	1955	Prototype	n/a	In modified form renamed the Mirage I.
Dassault Mirage III	France	Jet	Fighter	1956	Production	1,422	Supersonic jet. Many derivatives.
de Havilland DH.108 Swallow	UK	Jet	Experimental	1946	Prototype	3
Douglas F4D Skyray	US	Jet	Fighter	1951	Operational	422
Dunne D.1	UK	Glider	Experimental	1907	Prototype	1	Biplane. Failed to fly with pusher power module.
Dunne D.3	UK	Glider	Experimental	1908	Prototype	1	Biplane.
Dunne D.4	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1908	Prototype	1	Pusher biplane.
Dunne D.5	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1910	Prototype	1	Pusher biplane.
Dunne D.6	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1910	Prototype	1	Pusher. Failed.
Dunne D.7	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1911	Prototype	1	Pusher.
Dunne D.8	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1911	Operational	2	Pusher biplane.
EFW N-20	Switzerland	Jet	Experimental	1948	Prototype	3	N-20.01 gilder, .02 Arbalète and .03 Aiguillon.
Fairey Delta 2	UK	Jet	Experimental	1954	Prototype	2	First aircraft to exceed 1,000 miles per hour. Later modified as the BAC 221.
Fauvel AV.36	France	Glider	Private	1951	Homebuilt	100+	and others by Charles Fauvel.^[4]
FMA I.Ae 38	Argentina	Propeller	Transport	1960	Prototype	1	Designed by Reimar Horten.
General Aircraft GAL.56	UK	Glider	Experimental	1944	Prototype	4
General Dynamics F-16XL	US	Jet	Experimental	1982	Prototype	2	Cranked delta wing.
Gotha Go 147	Germany	Propeller	Patrol	1936	Prototype	1
Granger Archaeopteryx	UK	Propeller	Private	1930	Prototype	1
Haig Minibat	US	Motor glider	Private	1979	Homebuilt	10+
HAL Tejas	India	Jet	Fighter	2001	Production	33
Handley Page HP.75 Manx	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1943	Prototype	1	Pusher.
Handley Page HP.115	UK	Jet	Experimental	1961	Prototype	1	Sharply swept delta wing.
Hawker P.1077	UK	Jet	Fighter	1949	Prototype	0
Hawker Siddeley HS 138	UK	Jet	Strike fighter	1969	Prototype	0	Tailess VTOL delta wing.
Hispano HA P-300 (HA-23P)	Spain	Glider	Experimental	1959/60	Prototype	1	Developed into the Egyptian Helwan HA-300 tailed jet.
Hoffman Flying Wing	US	Propeller	Experimental	1934	Prototype	1	Arup-type "heel wing".
Horten Aircraft HX-2	Germany	Propeller	Experimental	2018	Prototype	n/a
I.Ae. 34 Clen Antú	Argentina	Glider		1949		6	Designed by Reimar Horten and manufactured by the FMA.
I.Ae. 41 Urubú	Argentina	Glider		1953		5	Designed by Reimar Horten in Argentina.
Interstate XBDR	US	Jet	UAV	1944	Project	0	TV-guided cruise missile.
Kalinin K-12	USSR	Propeller	Experimental	1936	Prototype	1	^[5]
Kasper Bekas	US	Glider	Experimental	1968	Prototype	3
Kimura/Kayaba HK-1	Japan	Glider	Experimental	1939	Prototype	1
Kayaba Ku-2	Japan	Glider	Experimental	1940	Prototype	1
Kayaba Ku-3	Japan	Glider	Experimental	1941	Prototype	1
Kayaba Ku-4	Japan	Propeller	Experimental	1941	Project	0	Cancelled before it flew.
Kollman Raptor	US			1994		n/a	^[6]^[7]
Lippisch delta	Germany	Propeller	Experimental	1931-45	Prototype	n/a	Several types.
Lockheed A-12	US	Jet	Reconnaissance	1962	Production	n/a	Mach 3 capability. Long forward-fuselage chines. Several derivatives, especially the SR-71 Blackbird.
Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA	US	Jet	Experimental	2000	Project	0	Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft.
Marske Monarch	US	Glider	Experimental	1974	Homebuilt	n/a
Marske Pioneer	US	Glider	Experimental	1968	Homebuilt	17	One example built of the Pioneer 1, at least 16 of the Pioneer II.
Marske XM-1	US	Glider	Experimental	1957	Prototype	1
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet	Germany	Rocket	Fighter	1941	Production	~370
Mitchell U-2 Superwing	US	Glider	Experimental	1980	Homebuilt	n/a
John K. Moody/Larry Mauro Easy Riser	US	Propeller	Experimental	1975		n/a	^[8]^[9]
Napier tailless fighter^[10]^[11]	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1946	Prototype	0	Concept using Sabre E.122 3350 hp engine with contra-rotating propellers.
Nike PUL 9	Germany	Propeller	Experimental	1990	Prototype	1
Northrop X-4 Bantam	US	Jet	Fighter	1948	Prototype	2
Northrop Grumman RQ-180	US	Jet	UAV	2015	Prototype	n/a	Stealth surveillance aircraft.
University of Pretoria Exulans	South Africa	Glider	Experimental	1989	Prototype	2	Exulans I and II. "Gull" variable-sweep wing.^[12]^[13]
Saab 35 Draken	Sweden	Jet	Fighter	1955	Production	651	Supersonic jet. Double-delta planform.
Short SB.1	UK	Glider	Experimental	1951	Prototype	1	Aero-isoclinic wing.
Short SB.4 Sherpa	UK	Jet	Experimental	1953	Prototype	1	Aero-isoclinic wing.
Soldenhof So.A	Switzerland	Propeller	Private	1930	Prototype	1	Pusher.^[14]
Sypaq Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System	Australia	Propeller	UAV	2019	Operational	n/a	Electric powered stealth waxed cardboard 2m (6.6 ft) wingspan surveillance aircraft.^[15]
Tupolev Tu-144	USSR	Jet	Transport	1968	Operational	16	SST.
Vought F7U Cutlass	US	Jet	Multirole Fighter	1948	Operational	320
Westland-Hill Pterodactyl	UK	Propeller	Experimental	1920s-1930s	Prototype	3	Series of types, 3 actually built.
Weltensegler	Germany	Glider	Private	1921	Prototype	1
Chengdu J-36	China	Jet	Fighter	2024	Prototype	3
Shenyang J-50	China	Jet	Fighter	2024	Prototype	1

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