At the closing date of the competition 42 designs had been submitted which was won by a project named Beta but the Titch was placed second.
[3] Taylor built the prototype, registered G-ATYO, at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex between 1965 and 1966.
[4] The designer John Taylor was killed when the prototype Titch crashed at Southend on 16 May 1967.
[6] The Titch is a single-seat low-wing cantilever monoplane of all wood construction similar to the Monoplane but has fewer metal fittings than the earlier design and full size wing rib plans are supplied for the tapered wing panels.
With a cruise speed in the region of 160 mph (260 km/h), it is an effective cross-country touring aircraft and is also fully aerobatic.