This is a repaint for the payware Classic Aircraft Simulations Piper J-3C-65 Cub. This repaint depicts the restored 1939-built Piper J-3C-65 serial no.3191, registered as NC23438, which is owned by Dee Bradford, based at Bradford Field located north of Charlotte, North Carolina. Restored by Steve Yancey, the aircraft is painted, inside and out, to look just as it did when it left the Piper factory in 1939, with Satin Black and Lock Haven Yellow.
History:
Manufactured in 1939, the Piper J-3C-65 Cub serial no.3191, registered as NC23438, originally came from the factory with a 50 hp 3-cylinder Lenape Papoose radial engine. Because the Papoose tended to leak a good amount of oil, Piper painted the aircraft black to hide the oil steaks down the fuselage. Not long after it left the factory the aircraft was refitted with a 4-cylinder Continental A-40 engine, but which only produced 37-40 hp. Then in the 1940s, the aircraft was refitted with a Continental A-65, as most J-3 Cubs have, producing 65 hp. Owned by Dee Bradford, in recent years the Cub was fully restored from the ground up by Steve Yancey, putting it back into its 1939 paint scheme, as presented here, and it is considered a very original, bone-stock J-3. Flown to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh by then 21-year-old pilot Aubrey Clark, the aircraft won the trophy for 'Bronze Age Outstanding Closed Cockpit Monoplane'.
As copied in the restoration, Cubs came from the factory with the forward section of the cockpit painted black, curving down to roughly 8"-10" above the floor. The floor itself was also painted black. Early Cubs such as this one, built pre-WWII, had black gauges with white lettering, rather than white gauges with black lettering as came about in the 1940s. The Piper Cub logo on the tail, which has gone through a few design iterations over the years, is also of the early design.
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