Taylorcraft Aviation is an American airplane manufacturer that has been producing aircraft for more than 70 years in several locations.

The designer, Clarence Gilbert Taylor, a self-taught aeronautical engineer born in Rochester, New York,[2] to parents who immigrated from England,[3] can be called the father of private aviation in America, as he designed the original Taylor Cub in 1931 at Bradford, Pennsylvania.

The Chummy failed to sell, and after Gordon died flying another Taylor design in 1928, Clarence moved to Bradford, Pennsylvania, where the townsfolk had offered him a new factory at the local airfield plus $50,000 to invest in the company.

[1] That summer, the firm moved to Alliance, Ohio when the city offered the use of the former Hess-Argo biplane (28 built between 1929 and 1932) factory rent free for a period of six months with an option to buy for $48,000.

Taylorcraft's DCO-65 model was called the L-2 by the United States Army Air Forces and served alongside the military version of the Piper Cub.

In the fall of 1946 production was halted following a fire in the Taylorcraft factory at Alliance, Ohio[1] and the company went into bankruptcy.