History: Built in 1945, shipped to Saipan in Aug 1945. Arriving to the Pacific theater late in the war, it served briefly as liaison and communications support. Shipped back to the US it changed hands several times until wind damaged in 1968. Collected and faithfully restored by Colin Powers of OR, it became the EAA… More
Category Archives: L-4
Bill Pearson’s 1943 Piper L4A
History: “The Piper L-4 Grasshopper of WW2 was the military version of the highly popular pre-war J3 Cub, by which name it was more widely known to service personnel. Of the 5,500 L-4 variants produced between 1942 and 1945, some went to liaison squadrons and of the USAAF, but the vast majority went to US… More