International Liaison Pilot and Aircraft Association (ILPA-lead page)

(In the Military Pilots are usually Commissioned Officers)
However during the early years of W.W.II the Liaison Pilots
were recruited for their existing flying skills learned in civilian life
and were many times from the already enlisted Army ranks.

Close visual Artillery support during the battle,
Medical airlift of critically wounded,
Photo reconnaissance,
Military reconnaissance,
Ferry Saboteurs and spies into remote sites,
Shuttle "Brass",
Deliver classified Battle plans/messages to the front,
Rescue downed pilots
and any other task that could be accomplished only
in the light single engine Aircraft made in the 40's
usually covered in fabric and normally called generically
"Piper Cubs"

These aircraft were actually
Stinson, Piper, Aeronca, Interstate, Cessna, Dehaviland,
and any other massed produced light weight aircraft,
usually with no radios, and because of the weight factor
very little navigation or flight instrumentation.

These folks truly
"Flew by their experience and Guts"
into every known weather condition and terrain)

If you have articles, stories, photos, slides, unit histories, manuals, checklists, technical data, maintenance manuals, war stories or CAP rescue stories and photos you would like to share with the ILPA membership, they will be kept and placed in the ILPA Library at your request and/or duplicated and the originals returned at your request.

ILPA membership
makes a GREAT GIFT to a friend
who shares your love for the L-Birds.

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has devoted, past issues of "Liaison Spoken Here"
to the History and stories, with great photos, of every Liaison aircraft
used in every war of the 20th century by every nation, Allied or Axis.

For $75.00 (plus $5 for shipping and handling)
I will send you a copy of every past issue
I have written, edited and produced,
About 80 issues of "Liaison Spoken Here".

Send to:
International Liaison and Pilot Association
16518 Ledgestone,
San Antonio, TX 78232

The Call is out for any and all Unit histories

If you maintained a diary or if you have any Unit history of any
and all Liaison operations that you were assigned

If you would jot down as many memories as you can remember of your units activities
Please write them down and over time we will gather and piece together units Histories
It does not need to be exact... what ever you remember or even think you remember
If we all put our small memories on paper and send them in
from this we can begin to piece the information together like
a giant Jig-saw Puzzle

So Please send in your memories good or bad...
where you saw a Liaison plane
what was it doing ...what was your unit ...
who do you remember at the place at that time

No Matter how small the information
Send to:
International Liaison and Pilot Association
16518 Ledgestone,
San Antonio, TX 78232

Army	AAC/AAF	Navy	Civillian	Mfg.	nickname	Approx No
L-1	O-49	GQ-2	none	Stinson	Vigilant	250
L-2	O-57	GT-1	DC-65	Taylorcraft	Tee-Cart	1500
L-3	O-58	JR-2	TC-65	Aeronca	Defender	3000
L-4	O-59	NE-1	J-3	Piper	Cub	5250*
L-5	O-62	YO-1	none	Stinson	Sentinel	4000
L-6	O-63	none	S1B1	Interstate	Cadet	350
L-7	none	none	90AF	Monocoupe	Universal	32
L-8	none	none	S1A1	Interstate	Cadet	15
L-16	none	none	7-EC	Aeronca	Champ	600
L-17	none	none	NA-154	Ryan/Navion	none	300
L-18	none	none	none	Piper	Cub Special	1,541
L-19	OE-1	none	MOD 305	Cessna	Birddog	3500
L-20	U-6	none	DHC-2	DeHavilland	Beaver	1000
L-21	none	none	none	Piper	Super Cub	736