The Inspector wrote:
GOOGLE Museum of Flight in Seattle, they have NC 19893 resplendent in bright blue with gold trim hanging from the ceiling of the Great Gallery and have for over 25 years.
Thanks for that. We have already been in contact with the Museum and they have been wonderful to us. Currently they are having a look through their photo archive to see if they have any useful cockpit photos. Someone at my local airfield has lent me a couple of issues of the EAA Vintage Aircraft Magazine and one of them has a lovely article on a 1940 Taylorcraft, which shows the cockpit and some really useful detail photos.
One website that we have come across that has been extremely helpful is:
http://www.alliancememory.org/index.phpUnder the Taylorcraft heading, there are hundreds of photos of their production at the factory.
And what is the most surprising part of the project so far, is that Nr C G Taylor was in fact an Englishman from Nottingham who emigrated to America in the early 1920s with his brother. A Mr A L Wykes visited him in 1938 and purchased one model B, a fuselage jig, 55 engines and the rest is history as far as Austers go.
Best wishes,
Martin