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The Douglas XCG-17 was an American assault glider developed by the conversion of a C-47 Skytrain twin-engine transport during World War II. Although the XCG-17 was successful in testing the requirement for such a large glider had passed and no further examples of the type were built; one additional C-47 however was converted in the field to glider configuration briefly during 1946 for evaluation but was quickly reconverted to powered configuration.
