Taylor Cub

The Taylor Cub was designed by C. Gilbert Taylor as a small, light and simple utility aircraft, evolved from the Taylor Chummy, and is the forefather of the Piper J-3 Cub. Taylor Aircraft began building a two-seat tandem aircraft in 1930 with a high wing, an open cockpit, a fabric-covered tubular steel fuselage and wooden wings. The first 20 horsepower Brownback Tiger Kitten engine was too weak and a Salmson radial was costly, so in 1931 Taylor introduced the E-2 Cub with a 37 horsepower Continental A-40 engine. Twenty-two were sold in 1931 at 1,325 dollars each, and 353 were built at Bradford, Pennsylvania before production ended in February 1936. Later variants were the F-2, G-2, H-2 and J-2.