Aeronca L

The Aeronca L is a 1930s American cabin monoplane designed and built, in small numbers, by Aeronca Aircraft. It differed significantly from other Aeronca planes in using radial engines, streamlining and a cantilever low wing, with side-by-side seating in a completely enclosed cabin, large wheel spats on the fixed undercarriage and a Townend ring on the engine. Aeronca's own engines proved inadequate, so the company turned to small radial engines from other suppliers, particularly the neighbouring Cincinnati maker LeBlond, and the variants LA to LD used LeBlond, Warner Scarab Junior and Lambert engines. The plane was not a big seller, and engine supply problems and the destructive 1937 flood at Lunken Airport led Aeronca back to high-wing light aircraft.