William T. Piper

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US postage stamp bearing the images of both William T. Piper and the aircraft that helped make him famous, the Piper Cub.

William Thomas Piper Sr. (8 January 1881 Knapps Creek, New York U.S. - 15 January 1970, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania) was an American airplane manufacturer, and founder, eponym, and 1st president of Piper Aircraft Corporation 1929-1970. He graduated from Harvard University in 1903, and became known as "the Henry Ford of Aviation".

Piper fought in the Spanish-American War and World War One, in the later as a captain in the Corps of Engineers.

External links

• [Army Aviation Association of America biography]
• [Find-A-Grave biography]

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