yellow taylorcraft on barnstormers

[Ragwing nut]

The yellow "ACE" on barnstormers was one of my first paying full restorations outside of our own projects back in the early 90's. Looks like she is still going strong. I sold it on ebay about 8-10 years ago for the owner who could not fly it anymore and delivered it to Florida. Looks like it has made its way back west.

[M Towsley]

Re: yellow taylorcraft on barnstormers

Mike, I didn't see anything described as an Ace. Is it the yellow and blue one?

[Ragwing nut]

Re: yellow taylorcraft on barnstormers

it is listed as a bc12d1 in tx. 4th one down in the taylorcraft listing.

[M Towsley]

Re: yellow taylorcraft on barnstormers

Thanks, I wasn't familiar with the D1 designation.

[Ragwing nut]

Re: yellow taylorcraft on barnstormers

BC12-D-1 signifies "ACE". I have also seen D-2 which had metal spar wings, but was not an ace

[dejh22]

Re: yellow taylorcraft on barnstormers

The Ace had no wing tank, parking brake or auxiliary door. My dad's first Taylorcraft was an ace but it did have an auxiliary door. If you add the door, parking brake and the wing tank it becomes a
BC12 D.

[Ragwing nut]

Re: yellow taylorcraft on barnstormers

The Ace had no wing tank, parking brake or auxiliary door. My dad's first Taylorcraft was an ace but it did have an auxiliary door. If you add the door, parking brake and the wing tank it becomes a
BC12 D.

we added the tank, but not the door. Can't remember if it had the park brake already in it. nice thing was it was less noisy of the left side.

[Tom T]

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Are you guys saying they made a model with one door?

we added the tank, but not the door. Can't remember if it had the park brake already in it. nice thing was it was less noisy of the left side.

[Ragwing nut]

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Are you guys saying they made a model with one door?

yes sir.

[n6346m]

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Which one?

yes sir.

[cvavon]

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my 1940 came out of the factory as a BLT that is from Forrests record book that was a trainer it was lycoming no left door tail skid no brakes no wing tanks paper work for the early years show the install of brakes tail wheel oh it did have skies as it went to northern Illinois

[M Towsley]

Re: yellow taylorcraft on barnstormers

Bob,

Mike is talking about the Taylorcraft Ace only having one door. I guess you could call it Taylorcraft's econo-model.

[dewhitaker]

Re: yellow taylorcraft on barnstormers

If you have a copy of Chet Peeks book. The Taylorcraft Story, you can read about the Ace. Page 176 - 178. The picture on page 178 is of my Dad's Ace that I took a picture of during the 1978 Fly in. I was just a high school kid with a camera and darkroom at home. Printed that picture and a lot of the oldtimers signed it. Dad has the original picture hanging at home. Those signatures represent the people who made our airplanes. Priceless!