Taylor Titch G-AYZH "Catch-22" light aircraft flown by Trevor Jarvis at Old Warden airfield, Bedfordshire in October 2014
The Taylor Titch was a 1960s British fixed-wing aircraft design for a homebuilt aircraft by Taylor As a result of a request for an aircraft with higher performance than the Taylor Monoplane of 1959, John F Taylor designed a high performance single-seater, the Titch. Taylor built the prototype, registered G-ATYO, at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex between 1965 and 1966. The Titch first flew at Southend Airport on 4 January 1967 Its all wood construction is similar to the Monoplane but has fewer metal fittings than the earlier design and full size wing rib plans are supplied for the tapered wing panels. With a cruise speed in the region of 160 mph, it is an effective cross-country touring aircraft and is also fully aerobatic. The Titch was named after the test pilot who first flew the Taylor Monoplane, 'Titch' Holmes. John Taylor was killed when the prototype Titch crashed at Southend on 16 May 1967. The marketing of plans for both his aircraft designs were taken on by his wife and later his son. By 2011 forty examples had been completed and flown. Trevor Jarvis bought Titch G-AYZH in April 2013 from Terry Gardner, who had taken on the plans-build project in 2001 after its two previous owners had failed to complete the aircraft, first registered in 1972.
Size: 4500px × 3477px
Location: Old Warden Airfield, Bedfordshire, UK
Photo credit: © Niall Ferguson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -ayzh, aircraft, airfield, catch-22, jarvis, light, taylor, titch, trevor, warden, yellow
