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Piper Aircraft Company factory during the 30s. Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Piper Aircraft Museum<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n While the US Army Air Force (former Army Air Corps until June 20th, 1941) had ordered, under the O-59 denomination (standing for 59<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> model of observation aircraft <\/span>in the Army\u2019s denomination<\/span>), a lightly fuselage modified version, by adding a greenhouse skylight and rear windows thus giving a better visibility, the US Navy ordered 230 of the standard version of the J3C-65, as a flight training aircraft, which it named the NE-1;\u00a0<\/span>\u201cN\u201d<\/span> standing as a code letter for Training, and <\/span>\u201cE\u201d for Piper, <\/span>in the Navy\u2019s system<\/span>. <\/span>Twenty more aircraft will be ordered later, as NE-2.<\/span><\/p>\n Piper NE-1 \"Cub\" trainer aircraft (Bu number 26381), photographed circa 1942-43, possibly at NAS Hampton Roads, Virginia. Note commercial \"Piper cub\" marking on tail. National Archives 80-G-K-596 - https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n USAAF aircraft were painted Olive Drab green; those of the US Navy being taken directly on the production line, they were painted \u201cLock Haven yellow\u201d. Henry Ford had said: \u201cAny customer can have a Ford model T painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.\u201d; William Thomas Piper could have said: \u201cAny customer can have a Piper Cub painted any color that he wants so long as it is yellow.\u201d<\/p>\n Thus, most of the NEs remained soberly painted yellow, some aircraft even keeping for some time the black fuselage arrow, real trademark of the Piper Cub.<\/p>\n Picture taken from a US Navy instruction film.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Genuine NE-1, manufacturer serial number 8263, BuAer 26346, restored to flying conditions.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I will now tell you some words about one of my numerous elder brothers, number 8277-12. Oddly, several of them are named 8277. One could speak of twins, if they were not forty or so\u2026 A less poetic explanation could be a mistake in the follow-up of the manufacturer serial numbers, caught up in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":7868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/80-G-K-596_800px-1.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NZ1W-1Ug","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7332"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10905,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions\/10905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}NE-1, the naval Cub<\/h2>\n
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