Built by Aeronca at Lunken Airport, Cincinnati Ohio in 1936. The aircraft was first owned by Henry E. Cunning, an early pioneer of the airmail service known as Mansfield, Ohio's "Flying Postman". By 1961 due to problems with the wooden wing spar the aircraft was grounded and stored until restored to fly again in 2018 when it won the Antique Reserve Grand Champion Silver Lindy award at Oshkosh. It was donated to the Kelch Aviation Museum in 2024.

Registration cancelled in 2019

The Aeronca LW was the prototype of the L-series and originally had a 2-cylinder 40hp Aeronca E-113-C engine, with which it was painfully under-powered. It was replaced by a 5-cylinder 60hp LeBlond 60 engine, as here. Registered as above in 1935 and the first four characters are visible under the wing. Fate unknown. Photograph taken by William H Engle. Collection holder William Engle is the son of the photographer.

65 Aeronca Ls were built, nine of which were the LA powered by a 70hp LeBlond 5DE engine. NC15738 (N15738) was cancelled in 1956. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

The Model L was an untypical Aeronca design, built in fairly small numbers. Photo from: Columbus Metropolitan Library

Manufactured in 1940. Registration cancelled 11 April 2013.