Piper Aviation Museum (10/9/2021)

Saturday, October 9, 2021 (continued)

A stop at the Piper Aviation Museum in Lock Haven, PA.

Beginning fall colors on a gray day

In 1927 the Taylor Aircraft Company was founded in Bradford, PA. William T Piper owned half the shares, and in 1935 he bought the other half of the shares from Gilbert Taylor. After a fire destroyed the factory in 1937, Piper moved production to Lock Haven, PA.

In 1937 Piper purchased the abandoned Susquehanna
Silk Mill building and renamed the company the
Piper Aircraft Corporation

Former Piper Aircraft Corporation Headquarters (1960s?)

Former Piper Aircraft Engineering and Development
Building (1960-1961) is home to the Piper Aviation Museum

The displays are numbered to follow the history
chronologically, starting with William T Piper himself

Model of a Piper TwinCub (KSS)

Grasshopper toy that is said to have been made at the
Lock Haven factory, along with the Piper L-4 Grasshopper,
a version of the Piper J-3 Cub for military use

Display on the Women Airforce Service Pilots

Link Trainer (KSS)

O-gauge model train layout with an airport

View down into the hangar (KSS)

Piper J-3 Cub; note on the back wall the high water mark
of the 1972 flood, which ended the production
of several models of Piper airplanes

Bob's SkyCycle: the fuselage and cab were built by Bob
who then donated the unfinished plane to the museum;
the Pennsylvania School of Technology is creating the wings

Golf cart, perhaps used by William T Piper (KSS)

1953 Buick Skylark definitely belonged to William T Piper

Piper L-4 Grasshopper

The City of Angels Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser made a
round-the-world flight in 1947

Stops made by The City of Angels

Flags of countries visited by The City of Angels (KSS)

Piper PA-24-400 Comanche 400 (1964)

Propeller display

At bottom is an Everel single-blade propeller,
which consistently performed better than the usual
two-blade propeller but never caught on with the general public

Next: Lock Haven, PA.