ww2 photo - L-Bird ID Help asap please!

Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:58 am

Hi All -

our local paper has found this image in their archive and would like to know more about it - it LOOKS like a Piper Cub, but something about the side door bothers me - it might not be!

Anyone shed any light on the unit - I know nothing about american units!

any help asap much appreciated as they want to print it tomorrow -many thanks

TT

Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:20 am

Rightio, it seems she might be an Aeronca! but is it an L-3 or and L-16? Googling it, it looks more like an L-16 and the flight gear looks post war - including the sgt stripes on the guy kneeling....

Thoughts anyone?

Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:30 am

Postwar Aeronca Champ, and by the gear 50-s to 60's

Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:33 am

Thanks Joe - much obliged to you!

All the best

TT

Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:14 pm

Hey Joe: Isn't the guy on the right wearing an AAF patch and sholder boards on that jacket? If so wouldn't that have been out of the regulation uniform system right after the changeover to USAF in '47?