Career
Foreign the majority of Taylor"s life, he has been involved in aviation. In 1941 he soloed and then served in both World World War II and the Korean War. He has worked as an aircraft mechanic and airport manager in addition to buying and selling airplanes and restoring them.
Taylor has promoted aircraft and flown them in television commercials and feature films.
Taylor continues to share his expertise about flying with people around the world to this day. In 1994, Taylor was inducted into the Iowa Aviation Museum"s Aviation Hall of Fame for his establishment of the Antique Airplane Association in 1953 for providing a place and a purpose to fly, to preserve, to share and to promote the early flying machines.
Taylor, who still resides in Ottumwa, publishes a national and international magazine featuring articles and stories about the peculiarities, the mystique, the nuts and bolts and the joy of antique airplanes.