In 1940, the U.S. Army Air Corps drew up a requirement for a radio-controlled target drone for training anti-aircraft artillery gunners.

Culver proposed a modification of its civilian Model LFA Cadet which the Army purchased as the PQ-8.

Larger and faster than the PQ-8, the PQ-14 also had retractable landing gear and fuselage, wings and tail components made of wood with stressed plywood skin.

After World War II, the Culver company developed the XPQ-15 from their Model V light aircraft.

[1] Most of the Culver target aircraft were "blasted out of the sky" by Army anti-aircraft gunners but a dozen or more survived and were surplused after 1950.