Taylorcraft

Taylorcraft is the aircraft marque of the American light aeroplane builder founded by Clarence Gilbert Taylor after he parted company with the Taylor Aircraft firm that became Piper. Taylor set up the Taylor-Young Airplane Company in 1935, started building his first Taylorcraft aeroplane at Pittsburgh-Butler Airport in 1936 and moved to Alliance, Ohio that summer, where the company was renamed Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation in 1939. The marque is known for conventional high-wing, fabric-covered two-seat monoplanes with side-by-side seating, whose basic design stayed almost unchanged from 1936. During the Second World War the tandem-seat Model D served the United States Army as the L-2 Grasshopper. After the 1946 bankruptcy the name passed through Taylorcraft Inc., a revived Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation that built the F-19, F-21 and F-22 into the 1990s, and later owners.