Taylor Experimental

A two-seat cabin monoplane of all-metal construction with a high lattice girder with diagonal surface bracing.

Built at Hamsey Green, UK, by designer R.Taylor in 1936. Only one was built of three planned. The designer died in the crash of the prototype in 7 January 1937 on its first flight.

c/n TE.2 G-AEPX prototype built with Cirrus Minor I engine.
c/n TE.3 G-AEPY single seat, not built
c/n TE.4 G-AEPZ two-seater, not built
c/n G-AERA not built

Taylor Thunderbird

In 1931 (H B) Taylor Automobile Works built the Thunderbird home-built NX12219 with an experimental license for “new type ailerons and flaps”.

A single place open cockpit monoplane, powered by a 30hp Szekely, by 1935 it had been repowered with an Anzani engine.

On 8/2/41 it was sold to the New Mexico Highlands University National Defense Training Branch, and the registration was cancelled in 1948.