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Taylorcraft BC-12-D Taylorcraft BC-12-D 1946 Model with custom painted fabric The Taylorcraft B is an American light, single-engine, high-wing general aviation monoplane, with two seats in side-by-side configuration , that was built by the Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation of Alliance, Ohio .
Taylorcraft Aviation is an American airplane manufacturer that has been producing aircraft for more than 70 years in several locations. The company builds small single-engined airplanes. The Taylorcraft design is a conventional layout: high-wing, fabric-covered, two-seat aircraft.
The Taylorcraft 15, which entered production as the 15A Tourist was an American-built general-purpose high-wing monoplane of the 1950s. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was a four-seat development of the two-seat Taylorcraft BC , fitted with a more powerful engine.
To better capture this new training market, Taylorcraft developed the Model D, which took up the tandem seat layout of the earlier Taylor J-2 which Piper's J-3 was patterned after. After 200 machines were constructed, production was converted to military orders for the Taylorcraft O-57 liaison plane, re-designated L-2 in April 1942.
Taylorcraft A When C. G. Taylor broke with Taylor Aircraft and founded the new company Taylor-Young, its first aircraft, originally known as the Taylor-Young Model A, was little more than a refined Cub with side-by-side seating. Taylor-Young soon changed its name to Taylorcraft and the Model A became the Taylorcraft A, first in the Taylorcraft ...
Later, an Airco DH.9A was modified as a monoplane with a large wing fitted with full-span leading edge slats and trailing-edge ailerons (i.e. what would later be called trailing-edge flaps) that could be deployed in conjunction with the leading-edge slats to test improved low-speed performance.
A 1988 Taylorcraft F-21 was displayed as an award in the Stardust Casino, Las Vegas. Per the U.S. Civil Aircraft Register, 34 F-21 models were active with private pilot owners in 2014, of which 18 were F-21, 3 were F-21A and 13 were F-21B models.
At the same time a prototype aircraft G-AFWN was built designated the Taylorcraft Auster V Series J/1 Autocrat. [1] Postwar models derived from the Model J commenced with the J/1 Autocrat - (note the use of J/1, not J-1). [2] [3] The sole J/8L Aiglet Trainer had an enlarged fin and rudder. Leeds (Yeadon) Airport May 1955