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Description
| Manufacturer: | Taylorcraft | |
| Base model: | L-2 | |
| Designation: | L-2 | |
| Version: | M | |
| Nickname: | Grasshopper | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1942-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Liaison | |
| See Also: | O-57 | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| United States Air Force Museum | Wright-Patterson | Ohio |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Chuck Vancouver, WA | I have 1943 L-2M. I bought as a project that has most the work done. Still a little fabric work to do on the bottom of fuselage. And re assemble. Trying to decide if I should recover entire fuselage or just put new bottom on. 03/29/2012 @ 12:08 [ref: 54558] |
| Peter Hanna Toronto, ON | I have an L2-M which I puchased in 1972 shortly after it was imported into Canada. It is S/N 5810, built in Alliance Ohio in Dec 1943. I completely restored C-FXST in the 1980s, including removal of the spoilers. It now has about 2100 hrs. TTSN, about half by me around Southern Ontario, mostly grass field flying, but once to Oshkosh in 1986 a week after it was declared airworthy by Transport Canada. I believe the spoilers were unneccessary, as it is easily slipped into short fields. Its a sweet flying honest taildragger, like a cub but soloed from the front and more comfortable and much faster in cruise. I have lost my medical certification, now awaiting TC's edict, so if anyone is interested in my cherished Taylorcraft L2M, it may be for sale soon. All logs, many photos available. 905 629 8836. 12/19/2010 @ 11:47 [ref: 34580] |
| tony vendramin , IN | Hi I'm a new owner of a L2m anyone now were to get coll fasteners they a half moon with a (bolt) shaft and spring.Also looking for front section of coll. 12/25/2008 @ 09:41 [ref: 23339] |
| tony vendramin , IN | Hi I'm a new owner of a L2m anyone now were to get coll fasteners they a half moon with a (bolt) shaft and spring.Also looking for front section of coll. 12/25/2008 @ 09:35 [ref: 23338] |
| Mike appleton, ON | I am presently looking at a 1946 Taylor Craft on wheels with 65 Hp and I am interested if anyone knows whether this will get airborne on floats. I am about 200 lbs and have about 8 kilometers to get airborne. If so what size of floats and approx. the cost for used ones. It is ether this one or an ultra light.
If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it. Mike Stockton stockton@storm.ca Thanks I originaly was looking for an ercoupe for floats but I have been told the last person tried that did not have a plesant expiernce way back when. 05/06/2008 @ 17:33 [ref: 20810] |
| W. Skot Weidemann Madison, WI | Greetings,
I bought a Taylorcraft L2M (N57525) in 1966 for $500 as a basket case, put it back together and soloed in it before getting my private license. At that point in time it was just another old airplane. As it aged, it became a maintenance problem (was parked outside) mostly because of it's cotton fabric and wooden wings, so I sold it a few years later to get a Luscombe. The model I had was the fully cowled version, had the spoilers that were removed and the turtledeck was faired in with formers and stringers. I believe it is still flying. At air shows I always look for L2's and sometimes see a few at Sun N Fun and Oshkosh Airventure. W. Skot Weidemann EAA 25948 09/08/2005 @ 20:29 [ref: 11185] |
| Walter Myer Camarillo, CA | As a USAAC Cadet I was sent to the College Training Detachment, Air Crew at Iowa Weslyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa in 1944. There I received 10 hours of flight instruction in the L-2B. Now I suppose that it was actually an L-2M because it did have spoilers on the top of the wing.
I would sure appreciate getting some good photos of the plane as I wish to build an radio controlled model of it. Walter G. Myer 06/28/2004 @ 05:06 [ref: 7709] |
| TERRY FISHER Lake Wylie, SC | I OWN TAYLORCRAFT L-2M , N46112, SERIAL NUMBER L-5572,
AND KNOW IT WAS MANUFACTURED , AT LEAST BY THE PLACARD, IN OCT. 23, 1943. IS THERE ANYWAY POSSIBLE TO FIND OUT THE ARMY AIR CORPS REAL SERIAL NUMBER OF THIS L-2M AND WHERE IT WAS USED DURING THE WAR? I AM A FORMER USAF / ANG RF-4C PHANTOM PILOT AND NOW FLY FOR USAIRWAYS IN CHARLOTTE, NC. I HAVE OWNED TWO STEARMANS AND NOW THE L-2M . I WILL INCLUDE PHOTOS IF THIS ACCEPTS IT. THANKS FOR ANY INFORMATION. TERRY FISHER 803-831-7755 tpfisher@compuserve.com fax 803-831-0885 04/05/2002 @ 12:34 [ref: 4661] |
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