Taylorcraft TG-6

The Taylorcraft TG-6 was a three-seat training glider made by Taylorcraft for the United States Army Air Forces early in the Second World War. The Army wanted a simplified glider for the first instruction of pilots who would go on to fly combat troop gliders, and the quickest answer was to modify existing civil light aeroplanes, so Piper, Aeronca and Taylorcraft each converted one of their designs. The Taylorcraft version was modified from the company L-2 Grasshopper, with a redesigned nose that replaced the engine with a third seat for an instructor, a slightly enlarged tail and redesigned landing gear, and the prototype changes took only nine days. A total of 250 were built for the Army and three for the Navy, which used it as the LNT-1.