Its original 95 horsepower Continental engine had been replaced twice ... proclaimed Clyde Smith Jr., a retired Piper employee referred to as the “Cub Doctor” by Cub owners and pilots around ...

Piper’s first move when designing its light attack airplane was to fit a Lycoming T55-L-9 turboprop—a modified Chinook helicopter engine—to a reworked P-51D. Evaluated during 1971 tests as a ...

The Taylor E-2 Cub was originally designed by two of the company's founders, William Piper and Gilbert Taylor, in the early 20th century, with its first flight coming in 1930. It was originally fitted ...

First flown in 1938 and derived from the 1930 Taylor Cub, Piper’s J-3 Cub is perhaps the purest form ... attention to the two most costly items to address – fabric and the engine. With full fabric ...

This 1947 Piper J-3 Cub has 14 hours on the airframe since its restoration and 14 hours since overhaul on its Continental C90 engine. Total airframe time prior to restoration is unknown.

The results were buoyed by Piper’s flagship M700 Fury, its new 300-kt. single-engine turboprop, with 46 deliveries. The M700... Molly McMillin, a 30-year aviation journalist, is managing editor ...

“A speech is like an airplane engine,” he says ... presided over the creation of the first Cub. Price: $1,325. In 1936 Piper bought out Taylor, had hardly got started when the company ...

Piper’s piston-engine aircraft are selling well and it appears that the ... “Of course, if we’re talking about a fun plane, I don’t think you can beat the Piper Cub. It’s another great looking ...

The Piper PA-11 Cub Special is an improved version of the J-3 Cub, which first took to the skies in 1947. The PA-11 featured a few enhancements over its predecessor, such as an enclosed cabin (the J-3 ...

Eric Tucker is a second generation airshow pilot who performs all over the world in his Piper J3 Cub. He's known for his dead-stick antics – purposely killing the engine and doing aerobatics ...

I first read Watty Piper’s 1930 classic, ‘The Little Engine That Could’, in my second year of primary school. The story is about a little train engine that was neither so big nor strong.