taylorcraft what color

[flymac]

Hi all i read that all pre war ships were one color red is this true
my ship is a 1940 bc65 n26633

[Ryan]

Re: taylorcraft what color

That is not correct. In fact per wars were more colorful than post wars. Check out www.alliancememory.org. There is a large collection of prewar photos there

[flymac]

Re: taylorcraft what color

Thanks ryan yaa i looked 100 times trying to find my ship i love saying ship my log books say ship till 60s
dec1941 reads all ships grounded !
most tcrafts that i saw as a kid were black red white red
in 1972 my dad had n36298 41 bc12d it was blue and cream i think mert mead own it or found it my dad gave him his ticket
i wish he was still on the fourm .

[barnstmr]

Re: taylorcraft what color

Even though this is a B&W photo, I think it clearly answers the question. Pre-war ships were not all the same color.

[Carl E. Carson]

Re: taylorcraft what color

My '40 Tcraft, 29624, serial 2466, manuf. Dec. 1940, looks like the plane in the back row, first on the left. It was/is blue, cream stripe and wings have the blue leading edge. Dad bought it in 1943 with the original cover and flew it back to Iowa from Conn. It is pictured in Terry's 2014 calendar.

Carl

[flymac]

Re: taylorcraft what color

dam still no real proof to me they look like 39s to me and all one color.
back row left looks black orange stripe to me . I called bear creek trading post has 1940 bc 65 hanging in the strore and i have name and #of the man that had it new so im going to call im not going to stop till i see and talk with the men that flew um new
p/s share your photos of are ships old and new .

[Ryan]

Re: taylorcraft what color

Judging color with the old B/W photos will be next to impossible. (Just ask any WWI historian what color Werner voss' cowl on his Fokker triplanes was...). I have a brochure from 1941 that shows deluxe paint options available and shows training versions (B-65) as blue with yellow wings and a yellow stripe. Many ads and sales brochures depict red and black.

[3Dreaming]

Re: taylorcraft what color

Judging color with the old B/W photos will be next to impossible. (Just ask any WWI historian what color Werner voss' cowl on his Fokker triplanes was...). I have a brochure from 1941 that shows deluxe paint options available and shows training versions (B-65) as blue with yellow wings and a yellow stripe. Many ads and sales brochures depict red and black.

I think there were 5 different color schemes for the 41 deluxe. My 41 BL trainer was metalic blue with a yellow stripe, and the wings and tail were silver.

[Marv]

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Maybe they painted them the same 2 tone paint till the barrels went empty.

[Ryan]

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When we think about color I think we might think about what Taylor set out to do, and that was what piper was not. By 1940-41 piper was dominating the trainer market, and so Taylorcraft was meant to appeal not only to schools but to the business man etc... All research that I have found is barebones training aircraft were metallic blue with some combination of silver wings, and maybe a stripe. By ' 46 the bc12d trainers eliminated the stripe.

However Taylorcraft made many color combos to appeal to private owners. Photos I have seen including albums at Forrest's show the solid color with different color stripe and leading edge of wings beginning with the model A and lasting through the F-19. The stripe changes over the years from a solid stripe to the double stripe with the diamond commonly seen.

Seems for a while Taylor young model As were cream with red strip with an additional stripe down the top of the fuselage. That scheme seems unique to them. The deluxes added chrome and the two tone top/bottom paint separated by a third color stripe. My bc12d mimics a deluxe airplane that was built after the war(probably out of pre war parts) and I have only seen that one airplane painted that way, although many could have been painted that way.

Bc12ds also intoduced the often reproduced two tone fuselage scheme were the bottom dark color encompasses the entire nose. I believe many of the bc12d aces were solid colors but not 100% sure on that. As the years went seems they standardized more and more with the one off or unique schemes and colors occurring in 36-38.