Taylorcraft B

The Taylorcraft B is a light, single-engine, high-wing monoplane with two seats side by side, built by the Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation of Alliance, Ohio, and the mainstay of the company in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It was built in large numbers as a landplane and as a floatplane, with a welded steel tube fuselage covered in doped fabric and wings braced by steel-tube struts. The family grew from the Model A through the BC with a Continental engine, the BF with a Franklin and the BL with a Lycoming, each in several power ratings, and some were impressed into United States Army service with L-2 designations. The postwar BC-12D and the later Model 19 Sportsman descend from it. Most were bought by private owners in the United States, Canada and Europe, and many still fly.