Taylorcraft Plus C (Military aircraft)
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Wikidata:
Q1681626
Library of congress:
sh2014001793
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Warner, G. First in the field: 651 Squadron Army Air Corps, 2011:(No. 651 Squadron's first aircraft were an assortment of Taylorcraft Plus Cs and Ds, three Piper Cubs and a Stinson Voyager.)
- Wikipedia, July 18, 2014:(Taylorcraft Auster; The Auster was a twice removed development of an American Taylorcraft design of civilian aircraft, the Model A. The Model A had to be redesigned in Britain to meet more stringent Civil Aviation standards and was named the Taylorcraft Plus C.)
- Historyofwar.org, July 18, 2014:(British Taylorcraft was founded in November 1938 at Thurmaston, Leicestershire, to build the Taylorcraft aircraft under license. It began by producing a version of the Taylorcraft Model A, replacing the 40hp engine of the original with a 55hp Lycoming O-145-A2 engine. This aircraft became known as the Taylorcraft Plus C; At the start of the Second World War twenty Plus Cs and four Plus Ds were impressed into the RAF. They were evaluated successfully for the artillery spotting role by No. 651 Squadron ...)
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Wikipedia description:
The Taylorcraft Auster was a British military liaison and observation aircraft produced by the Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) Limited company during the Second World War.
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