The Piper J-3 Cub is among aviation's most iconic light planes. It is a simple, yellow aircraft that transformed flight training and helped democratize private aviation in America. From its humble ...

Maybe forever. The story of the Piper Cub begins with two barnstorming brothers, C. Gilbert and Gordon Taylor, who together formed the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Co. in the late 1920s. Their goal ...

Eric Tucker wheel-taps the river below him in his Piper J3 Cub As spectacular as Tucker's flying is, it takes an equally incredible talent to capture it on film. Aircraft footage has historically ...

So, let's start counting and see which airplanes are the most popular birds in the sky. The Piper J-3 Cub is a steel and fabric tail-dragger that first flew in 1938. Because of its cheap and ...