Clarence Gilbert Taylor (September 8, 1898 – March 29, 1988) was an early American aviation entrepreneur and co-founder of the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation (later named the Piper Aircraft Corporation) in Rochester, New York.
[1] Gilbert was born on September 8, 1898, in Rochester, New York to Arthur and Clara (née Makin) Taylor, who had immigrated to the United States from Nottingham, England, in 1889.
A year later, Gordon was killed, along with an early sales agent for the brothers' aircraft, during a demonstration flight for a prototype of their Taylor Chummy airplane at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan.
After his brother's death, Gilbert moved the company to Bradford, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1936.
It went on to build more than 20,000 Taylor-designed Piper Cubs, the most-produced fabric-covered aircraft of all time.