page_title: Schleicher Ka 3
section_title: Variants
hierarchical_section_title: Schleicher Ka 3 / Variants
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kaiser Ka 1 in der Flugwerft Schleissheim
context_page_description: The Schleicher Ka 3 or Kaiser Ka 3, is a 1950s single seat training glider, mostly sold in kit form.
context_section_description: Ka 1 Rhönlaus
  Original version with rounded, wooden fuselage. First flown 1951. 10 built.
  Ka 3
  Development with a slightly longer, fabric-covered steel-tube fuselage.  Performance and weights as Ka 1. First flown in 1954. 15 produced.
caption: Ka 1 in the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim
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