Meet the Cub! 1946 J-3C
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My 91 year old father in law trained/soloed in this plane while in the USAF, 1953-57. He will be visiting for Thanksgiving, and I am certain that he will have a great big smile on his face while watching a replay of this video. Thanks and Happy Birthday.
Ya know, for a 1962 model, you kinda grow on a person. So, I'm gonna do you a favor and show you an emergency airstip that I just found in my part of the country to keep you around longer. It's about 42 miles East of Cape Blanco and about 6.75 miles North of Horseshoe Bend on the Rogue River.(Very unforgiving country)The strip is 1700' long and 3800' of elevation......It has a BIG "X" on each end of the runway!(;>) It's called Calvert BLM Airstrip according to Bing maps. It's probably on sectional charts, but I don't have one to verify that. Happy Birthday, Juan. May you have many more.(:>)
Did he train at Winter Haven, Florida?
Somewhere in Texas and I believe North Carolina. From the Piper to a T6, B25 and on to a C47. He spent most of his career in England.@@cfi1598
This brings back memories. In the late 80’s five of us put in $3,500 each and purchased a Cub in PA. You are right about the brakes being weak. We would pump them up, clamp the brake hose with vice grips and try to put more fluid in the reservoir to help. Don’t remember that helping much. My first flight in Our Cub involved a lot of airsickness from PA to NC with one of my partners. I was a young instructor. My checkout was from one of my partners. The first time I could make three landings in a row without help he got out. I made three more landings and one of the partners with no Cub time got in and I became a Cub instructor. It’s a miracle we didn’t destroy the airplane over the several years we owned it. You can park a Cub beside a King Air or Citation and those pilots will come out and admire it more than I admire their airplanes. It taught me a lot about flying. I had a rocker arm break in it and had to land on I-40. The engine continued to run but wouldn’t develop enough power to maintain my altitude. I had the door and window open so it sounded like multiple shotguns going off right beside me. Fortunately, there wasn’t much traffic on the interstate. One of my partners came and fixed it. The Highway Patrol blocked traffic and I took off the next day. That was the highlight of my flying career. I miss flying but I miss more the people and the relationships you develop being part of a small airport community. Thanks for the video.
Some up all my thoughts and memories of Cubs and Super-Cubs, So jealous!
My older brother wanted to start flying so my dad took him up in Baron and talked him through some instrument approaches. He came back to my house and I asked him how it went. He said "I guess flying is not for me". I told him I thought dad was trying to scare you away.
So I rented a Cub with the 65HP and took him up and in less than an hour had him excited and doing everything but the actual touchdowns. He went back to Arizona got all his ratings and ended up flying Caravans all over the west and Mexico along with tours over the Grand Canyon. All thanks to a few hours in a Cub!
Great story, KO. Everyone has to find their niche.
I nominate Pete as board president and Chairman of the Juan Browne Aviation and Motorcycle Museum! It’s very cool that you have a connection to all of the airplanes you currently own. The Chuck Yeager connection is something special!
My grandfather soloed a J-2 cub. My dad soloed a J-3 cub. He then taught me to fly a J-3 cub. This summer my son soloed in the same J-3 I did, taught by my dad. It’s the best airplane to learn to fly in, as well as to just go fly around. Good chance you will keep it forever.
When I was 15-16 years old I worked at the Sussex, N.J. airport and took flying lessons in the Cub. I helped rebuild 22 of them, sanding scraping and testing for cracks, then covering with several coats of dope. We sent the engines out to the factory to be rebuilt except the Franklin engines we scrapped. I spent 4 years in the ASAF and still fly R/C model planes. The biggest one I have is 1/4 scale. My 80 birthday is Nov 21. WA7VQR
Happy bday for towmmor ted Respect from the UK ( I live in Sussex South coast UK )
Just yesterday I read that the propeller on these airplanes is great to keep a plane cool. And if the propeller stops running, then the pilot will start to sweat!
I soloed in a J3 at Chino, CA airport in May 1970 after 3.7 hrs dual. I was in the pattern with a plethora of other aircraft including P51s. It was tense! It didn't fly as good as the Aeronca Champ but, after 53 years and 23,300+ hrs of flight time, the memory is still crystal clear. Kodos to the Cub!
What a beautiful machine! Be still my heart.... I've got about 300 hours in a 7AC Champ and probably 50 or so in a J-3, and for basic stick-and-rudder flight training you can't beat it. As I've always said, the most fun you can have with your clothes on!
I learned to fly in a Cub 1966. Solo in 8 hours, private pilot license in 40! Love that plane but it did not have all the instruments shown here! My instructor, a 220 pound retired Air Force pilot forgot to mention to me how the Cub would perform when he got out! I had an interesting flight around the pattern!
Juan, as I see it the standout theme in all of your videos is that you are a person who is totally in love with flying. With everything about flying.
When I had to quit flying years ago, I had around 1500 hours in mine. Just after I helped my dad rebuild it I soloed in it in 1976. From the corn fields of Iowa to the deserts in Arizona, while other kids were putting money in cars, I was putting money in the gas tank of the Cub. So many good memories....
Nice looking restoration. I sold my J-3 in 1994 and bought it back in 2001. The most fun you can have in aviation.
Really nostalgic for me. I learned to fly on a 1946 J-3 back in 1962 in Long Island, N.Y. No electric, no radio,
no transponder (what was a transponder? !!) . If you did have a radio , how did it work anyway? !! In those days the only requirement for flying overhead
JFK (then it was Idlewild International), was to stay at 2500 feet or above. Hard to imagine now!
It was great circling overhead watching the DC3s, DC6s, Constellations and the new fangled
contraptions like the B-707 and DC8s landing and taking off under me.
Thanks for the reminder of the 1946 J-3 and Happy Birthday and a million more to you.
Happy birthday Juan - nice plane. I'm 13 years older than you. My Dad and his high school buddy bought a J-3 in 1941 from a woman 20 miles away a year after they graduated - he didn't own a car but was half owner of an airplane. We live 80 miles from where they were all built. Those two had their tickets before 7 December, the Cub went to the Army and they followed. My Dad was a B-25 driver, owned a couple planes after the war but gave it up when he got married in 47. My first flight was with him and my kid brother in the back seat of a J-3 when we were about 4 and 2 or so - 1953 or 54. His buddy who ran the local grass strip airport (same one he had soloed and flown from) took us up (he'd flown the Hump in C-47s). I can remember him asking if I wanted the door left open as it was summer - and he laughed at my expression - and I was 'outboard'. The three of us together couldn't have weighed 180. As always we had to get the 'roller coaster ride' - stall it since no aerobatics. As a kid I thought that was part of every flight. Thanks for triggering all those great memories with this video. Enjoy that aircraft - one of my very few regrets in life is never getting legal time in the front seat and flying instead of being a grunt. Fly safe and keep enjoying.
In South Dakota there were the “flying farmers” many of who had Cubs. Before there were paved roads everywhere the farmers had to fly during mud seasons. They called it the Model A of the sky’s.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY and CONGRATULATIONS!!!! What a GREAT birthday present to yourself!!! I was a USN Attack pilot (A-4s, A-7s), commercial pilot and CFI, and I got my tail-wheel sign-off in a J-3!! I went on to fly T-6s/SNJs, Stearmans, and D-25s, but Cubs ARE truly just about the most fun you can have with your clothes on in front of other people!! ...and DEFINITELY an AFFORDABLE option, when compared to a BIG ROUND ENGINE!! THANKS FOR SHARING JUAN!!!
Wash-in is bad; wash-out is good. It looks brand new. Congratulations!
Happy B-Day, Juan! I’m older than your Cub, and so I am no cub.
But my first thought was that your first thought on seeing this crème puff of a used plane must have been of your son Petey.
I flew a 1946 J-3 from Arlington, WA to Winter Haven, Florida in Summer 1996. It was a great trip!
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Happy Birthday Juan! Beautiful Cub!! Do I detect some time being devoted to introducing aviation to kids? You already have taught a bunch of people the beauty of flying.
Happy 61st birthday?????...This means only 4 more years until he is kicked out of the airline business at 65.
I think I soloed at Gnoss Field in 1977. Then I crossed paths with Carl Harter in 1983, when I needed an ATP check ride to upgrade to captain (Cessna 402C) at WestAir Commuter, based in Chico. Everybody loves flying a J-3. 😊
Interesting. We had a young B-Cat instructor flying a Cub in New Zealand from the back seat. Someone saw him and filed an incident report with the NZ Civil Aviation Authority. They started a full investigation and commenced proceedings to prosecute. Even when shown the Flight Manual about soloing from back seat, they weren’t going to back down. Took months of ‘negotiations’ to eventually get the situation sorted for the young instructor.
When i leaned to fly in 1970, the operation I was flying with had a J3 that they rented for $6/hr wet. I think I got about 60 hours in that thing. Great flying.
🎂HAPPY 61st TRIP AROUND THE SUN🎂
I thank you for the Cub Pov.
Relived my first flight in Cub from a grass strip in Pa.
Thank you Bob Frascadore where ever you are.
Everyone who owns a Cub eventually learns one or two maneuvers performed during "Flying Farmer Routines", congrats, Juan, she's a beaut!!
The wonderful good old days of flying.
Happy Birthday, Juan.
I love this, Juan. My first flight in a general aviation fixed-wing airplane at age 16 was in a 65 hp J3 Cub. Fifty years later I tracked it down and bought it. It is now my pride and joy to fly in my retirement. More fun per buck than anything else.
Happy Birthday...
When I was getting my A& P license, we had to learn to Start, and Taxi by using a J-3 Cub that is now hanging in the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola Florida onbard NAS Pensacola.
A friend of mine owns a L-4 painted up in WWII markings.
I have a few hours in a Cub. The most difficult part of flying it is getting into the cockpit! And a belated Happy Birthday!
This was a great video! Strange how our young lives paralleled each other. I got my private certificate at the age of 18 in November of 1966. In 1967 I purchased a Taylorcraft DCO-65 from a friend (N75891). It had a continental 85 and flew very well. It just didn't want to land. A lot of wing on those airplanes. Life and kids happened and I had to sell it a few years later. Followed ownership of it through the years until it was decommissioned in the US and exported to Australia. At 75 I am still flying rental aircraft and thoroughly enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work!
I flew a 75 hp J3 with a metal climb pitch prop. As you advanced the throttle you pushed the stick to raise the tail and by the time you reached the full throttle stop you pulled the stick back and it flew. 70 mph it's cruise. It's hard to see how anyone ever got killed in one but it was subject to stall/spin like most and had almost zero occupant protection. Flying alongside cumulus clouds at 7500 ft. with the door open was the only time I ever experienced a twinge of acrophobia in an aircraft. Never at 390 in a L1011.
You're six months and change younger than I ... Congratulations soloing so young. The Cub looks immaculate Juan!!
Happy Birthday! I just hit 75 on Nov. 16. J3 Cub was my dad's dream aircraft. Never could find an affordable one. He had a Taylor Craft that he picked cheap because the fabric was a mess. Had it in our garage while he redid the fabric. The wings were not installed so we bundled them onto the fuselage and stuck the tail wheel in the bed of a pickup and drove it 60 or 70 miles across some Nebraska highways! Sweet little bird. Later he was able to buy a Mighty Luscombe!
Happy Birthday, beautiful airplane. Flew a cub conducing a creel survey twice a week for a year, on Arkansas largest state owned lakes, 6700 acres back in the 80’s. Perfect plane for the job!
This is by far my favorite Juan Brown video flick. Tcraft, cubs, lovem’ all. On another note, Juan put that Husky on floats and fly her to Alaska for the summer. Mahalo senor!
This video was a trip back in time, my first solo was a 1946 model in 1983. I had fairly large instructor and when he got out and said go. I remembered real quickly after takeoff that i need to get to work on trim tab. Did not want to quit doing touch and goes after that. Thanks for the vide and reminding me of a special time. Happy Birthday
👍👍🇺🇸 Happy birthday. The first time I went up in a glider it was towed by a Cub by a young fighter pilot flying the cub for his first tow. I’ve always have had an infinity for the Cub since I was a young kid building models.
Happy Birthday JB. 🍻🍰
When I saw meet the "cub" I thought that was you compared to me at 73
Take care and fly safe. 🤟🏼🖖🏼
Nice to see a stock Cub. It’s amazing what they do to them. The original are so perfect. Congrats Juan on the plane and the birthday. Birthdays have to be mixed for you. It’s great to be here but with a mandatory retirement age it’s a reminder time is short.
"Now you can stop flying it!" Good stuff Sir! Happy 61!
Wow that’s a really nice Cub
Back in the early 80's I watched a Cub doing pattern work at a local municipal airport.
It seemed to me it took off at about 30 knots, cruised around the pattern at 30 knots and landed at 30 knots.
It also seemed like it never strayed beyond 200 feet above or 200 feet horizontal from the runway during all the touch and go landings.
I was in awe.
Happy Birthday Juan! Nice looking Cub. My first solo in 1960 was in a Cub at Waukeegan, Il. Now own/fly a Piper Vagabond PA-15 also with an A-65 and Grove brakes (much improved braking). Watch your tire pressure as the tires will slip on the hub and pull the valve stem out destroying the tube.) Prces for tubes are now well north of $150.each. Enjoy.
Happy Birthday! I’m 69 on Wednesday…licensed since 1976. I first flew a similar Champ later that year. Love all your video’s.
Happy Birthday Juan! Congratulations on catching up to me. lol Zach did a great job on those landings! Congratulations Zach!
Flying backwards in a J3.
True, given the right winds you can bring a Cub to a flying stop and then let it drift in reverse.
A talented CFI who helped me with remedial training in my Piper PA 16 Clipper demonstrated her ability doing that at our Airpark in Vancouver Wa. ( The now defunct Evergreen Airpark ) originally built by Wally Olson.
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Happy Birthday. Sold my late Father-in-law's (retired 40 year TWA mechanic), two dismantled airplanes about a year and half ago. Both had been taken apart and stored in a shop in Placerville for 35 plus years. An ex-Navy 1939 or 40 J3 Cub and a 1949 or 50, Cessna 170. Casey Long is restoring the Cub in Lincoln to teach his daughter to fly and Mark Pilkington has the 170 in Placerville. Hopefully, Casey will get the Cub to look like that when he's done.
3 point, on grass, windows and door open ... the smell of covering, paint, and lubricants pushed aside by the smell of freshly cut hay, as you watch the right main just begin to spin. This is a pretty good memory to own.
08:30 2 strips of industrial strength Velcro will fix that Mascot in place nicely. Enjoy your new toy, she's really a beauty. Happy 61st, many happy returns like this one!
What a gorgeous cub! My late brother Tim bought a basket case '46 in 1969. My dad and Tim refurbished the thing and Tim flew the hell out of it on floats out of Old Town Airport in Maine. I loved that thing! I helped Tim replace one cylinder on the thing in 1975... Tim got sick a few years ago and kept flying 'till he couldn't pass the medical anymore. No idea what became of the cub. Just the most fun you can have.
That little cork gas gage CAN fail... Tim had to land in a field one day when he ran out of fuel with about 2 inches of wire showin'. Fun times.
I was concerned the bear wasn't secured with proper restraints. That looks like a fun aircraft to the fly. Godspeed, blue skies and have fun.
I learn to fligh and soloed in a J-3 65 HP, from 1946. LV-NHD. Who can forget this?. Very Happy Birthday!!!
Wow Juan, this video just opened up a whole bunch of wonderful memories! Back in my younger days as a child, ( some say I'm still there!) My mom's sister in law would come by and almost every weekend we would wind up at the little airport where mom's brother kept his airplanes. My first plane ride was sitting in the back floor of my uncles C152 at 6 yrs old in 1965. But his favorite plane he owned was a Yellow 1946 J-3 Piper Cub N7366H. Growing up I watched him fly over our home many a time and truly envied him. As I got older and learned to drive, I would still go hang out at the little airport hoping "Unk" was there. If he was there I would get the honor of spinning the prop on his Cub! WooHoo! Sometimes the airport owner would even let me catch a hop in one of his planes with him. I managed to fly a few times with my instructor pilot cousin in C172's and Piper Tomahawk"s and will never forget those good times. I truly enjoy watching all your videos, even though most are pretty sad. God Bless and fly safe.
This airplane brings so much pleasure to pilots, no matter the time. I flew it in the seventies and will always have wonderful memories.
Pete’s gonna have quite the stable someday! Good on you!
Happy Birthday! Stick & Rudder is all you need. Got my Seaplane Rating at the Jack Brown's in a '46 Cub.
Happy birthday, Juan! Enjoy your cub.
That third landing was a beautiful thing to watch.
Nice ol Cubby, happy birthday Juan. My Dad was Army Air Corp wwII. But anyway he got his ratings after the war and im not sure exactly what he started with, but i know he had a Stinson then a Seabee for a bit. Then he had several Super Cubs after that he used as ag sprayers before getting into better ag spray airplanes. First i remember flying was with him in a Super Cub on snow skis. Good times!
Yuma AZ I lived there for many years. That Cub is a beautiful bird.
That little Cub is just beautiful! Thanks for the tour Juan!! 8) --gary
I keep rewinding to watch Zach nailing those landings. Just beautiful, both the Piper and the skill in landing her!
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Tomorrow is my 60th birthday, so I've seen some things.
Your channel is the best content on the internet. Thank you.
I have some hours in a Cub. Always enjoyed landing on grass and watching the wheels touch down so slowly. Just a glance.
Happy birthday Juan. Hope you all have many wonderful memories in this beauty. 🐻
What an outstanding example of a J3! My all time favorite.
While in A&P school I worked at an FBO and witnessed a J3 coming in on a very windy day. He literally landed three times before he landed! Definitely a fair weather flyer 😅
Perfect music selection for the closing footage: Relaxed, spare, unpretentious... & not overly fast (just like the Cub).
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Very happy for purchase of your Cub. I’m a retired USAir/American captain (41years) and I own a 1946 Piper J-3Cub for 33 years. I restored my Cub on 2017 and won best Cub award at Lock Haven Sentimental Journey. Enjoy your Cub and hope to see you in Lock Haven someday. 13:
Congratulations! - on turning 61 (four years to go) - on owning a Perfect Cub - having a son who loves to fly as much as you. Buttons popping!
Happy belated birthday Juan 🎉🎁🎊! Wish you all the best and many many more to come!
Happy Birthday 🎉🎂🎁 Juan!! I flew one of these when I had about 130 hours. What a fun plane. I got most of my tail dragging done in a Bellanca Citabria, and I really enjoyed the Cub.
Loved watching Zack’s landings. Wow!! The next generation taking to the air! Sweet!
Take care and fly safe, Juan! Have a great birthday!!
Juan, my family owns a 1937 J3 with a serial # 4 I think, and has only 4 hours on it. It has hung on the ceiling of my famolys hanger. My grandfather bought it and was smoking a cig, and when he was coming in for a landing he dropped it on his pants and it started burning his pants and he almost crashed it. My uncles were there and told my grandmother, and she said NO more flying for you and it has never flown before. I wonder what it is worth now? Both my uncles own and now my cousins .they will not sell it or let any of the family member fly it.
Great video and happy birthday! I still love my J3 more than anything I’ve ever flown. I’ve flown it since my first solo on my 16th birthday. I’m 5 months older than you.
What a crazy chunk of history with that old TaylorCraft.
Super clean cub. I keep my eyes for an old cub. Need one that just needs some love.
Thanks! I'm a 1946 "cub", myself.😊
What a beautiful yellow bird!
Congratulations on acquiring it.
I feel like for most of us in general aviation owning a J3 cub is a right of passage. Everyone should own one at least once in there lives. 😊
Over here in New Zealand, I'm privileged to be allowed to fly a 1938 J-3C-50 Cub...yes, 50hp! (A50 engine). She is such a sweetheart to fly. I know of only one other flying in the world. There is also a J-3C-40 flying in New Zealand
Best birthday present ever 🎉. You’re still a youngster in my eyes. Safe flying!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JUAN! Here's to your health, happiness and many more birthdays to follow. 🍨🎂🍺
Happy Birthday, Juan! My dad loved flying the cub.
Juan, you're taking me back, way back. In 1963 I soloed in a Champ, in Indiana. Shortly thereafter, I bought a '47 J3 and flew it from Indiana to Reno . . Best 3.5 days of my entire life . . . I miss it so . . . Bob
There was a fellow (whose name I forgot) who flew a mild aerobatic routine in a Cub and lived in the Puget Sound area. I saw him at one of the Creswell air shows about 40 years ago. I remember him talking about his flying the Cub to different airshows to perform and, with a head wind, watching traffic on I5 go faster than he was.
Same experience in 1963 flying my 1946 J3. On the highway below Volkswagen Beetles were
out running me.
There's a GA pilot here in the UK, I cannot remember his name for now, but he is disabled. He flies around the country in a Cub doing videos which have been made into a terrestrial TV series.
UPDATE : His name is Arthur Williams - he is a former Marine who lost the us of his legs in a serious road accident. The aircraft is a 1943 Piper Cub, tail number G-BDEY and the television series he made is called Flying Across Britain. It's well worth a look for anyone who likes Piper Cubs and scenic flying in general.
Lovely plane in good hands, happy birthday.
I'm happy for Pete as well, might be rough learning from one of the best, but I'm sure you have it in you to make it all the way.
I have hundreds of hours in the J-3. Will always love this wonderful bird!!!
Happy birthday Juan! That’s a really nice cub. However, the “mighty” Luscombe is my favorite plane in your fleet. The design, colors and clean panel really appeal to my aesthetics,and it makes me smile whenever you fly it.
Happy birthday Juan! ✈️ Thanks for sharing the Cub's story, she's a beauty! 👍
And nice work there Zach 👏
Very Nice Cub Juan! Happy Birthday. Juan, I grew up helping my dad completely rebuild and restore various fabric covered Pipers. He was very meticulous about restoring to originality. My bother and I flew the finished cubs to various East Coast antique fly-ins and won first place in our class every time. I was wondering why you are soloing from the rear seat because, if I remember correctly, the 1946 and later cub's weight & balance allow solo from the front seat! When I checked the FAA Registry on your cub the year of manufacture date is a 1942 which is why solo from the rear seat is required. Let me know if I'm mistaken?
About my first powered aircraft, I did touch and go’s on! Having flown gliders a lot helped. With a centreline landing gear, you learn to stop flying only after it comes to a full stop. A great toy, but cramped..
This beauty looks better than new!!
Such a great airplane! My Dad had one a 46'...One summer morning we took her up to 10000' out of KASH
(1985) ...It took awhile.....we were monitoring Boston approach on a handheld and saw an L1011 letting down into Logan then heard the the pilot say "Is that a Piper Cub I see out there..."
What a gorgeous J-3, I'm so envious! Earned my tailwheel endorsement in a '46 J-3 (65 HP) at Santa Ynez Airport (Ca.) in 1978. Beautiful full-stall (tailwheel first) landings at the end!
Happy Birthday! This is one of your bet videos yet. Thanks for taking us along!!
Happy birthday, Juan!
When I was 8 years old, a friend of my mother's took me up in his Cub. I was eating an
apple, and when I asked the pilot what to do with the apple core, he opened the window and said:
"Give it a heave!", which I did. We were flying over Bear Mountain, N.Y. at the time.
Is there an apple tree down there in the woods, with my name on it?
It brings back fond memories to see this J3 in service. We cared for one of these for our airport rent. We had a 7AC for our "pet" airplane.
Very nice !
Something about the Cub, it's just pure flying the way it was meant to be.
Great video BUT the cub is more than just a trainer - back when I owned a Super Cub it was just the most joyous thing to fly. An airborne bicycle, completely connected to its surroundings. On a fine day in southern England there was no better way to go fly - low, slow and utterly chill.
Hi Juan..Got my student license in 1958 in this beautiful airplane. 1946 Cub..❤
Great fun - sunset landings. Come down on final in the sun cross the sunset shadow feel the air density go up with sudden temperature drop adjust your glide and float the plane down to a greaser landing....but it takes timing to the second.
Happy 61st Birthday! I got you beat by a couple lol
This is the essence of flying. The simplest physics to make it happen.