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light civil aircraft built in the 1940s. It was a mid-wing braced

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of conventional design with side-by-side seating for two and fixed,

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. It was originally marketed as the Babcock LC-13 by its original manufacturer, then as the Taubman LC-13 when the

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was acquired by

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. The rights were finally acquired by

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, but plans to mass-produce it were halted by the outbreak of

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. There was a brief attempt to revive the design at the end of the war, but nothing came of this.

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