When Piper introduced the PA-18 Super Cub in November 1949, its price was $3,595. The 1955 150 hp Super Cub sold for $6,000. Today, a new Cub Crafters CC-18 Top Cub sells for over $283,500.

The Piper Cub truly came into its own, however, as an artillery spotter and staff airplane near the front lines in Europe, where it was designated the L-4 Grasshopper.

Similar in its primary role to German airplanes like the Messerchmitt Bf-108, no, not the 109, the 108, the Grasshopper should be an American icon. But an ostensible lack of firearms and snarling ...

The Grasshopper—a Piper Cub as a civilian—was flown during the war as a liaison and observation airplane, but Carpenter, war-weary and homesick, became dissatisfied with flying as an artillery ...

When FLYING reported on the Piper J-3 Cub in its October 1946 issue, the U.S. was just one year out of World War II, and pilots returning to the civilian world were converting to private pilot ...

The L-4 fixed-wing Piper Cub "Grasshopper" was the most ubiquitous of the lightweight aircraft used to adjust artillery fire, gather intelligence, support naval bombardment and direct bombing ...

The PA-18 Super Cub series airplane was the last Piper production airplane type to carry the Cub nameplate. The first upgraded version of the J-3 was the PA-11 Cub Special which was distinguishable by ...

Piper planes haven't been built in Lock Haven since the 1980s, but the history of the company and aircraft like the "Grasshopper" used during World War II still remain.

The Piper Cub was developed by Kirkendall, former Alliance resident C.G. Taylor and William Piper of Lockhaven, Pa. Its maiden flight was Sept. 12, 1930, in Bradford, Pa.