Curtiss-Wright
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The Curtiss-Wright Corporation is an American manufacturer and services provider headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina, with factories and operations in and outside the United States. Created in 1
The main building of the Curtiss-Wright company at Caldwell, New Jersey, 1941.
A Curtiss-Wright Travel Air CW-12Q at Cotswold Airport, Gloucestershire, England
Curtiss Wright Buffalo NY
Curtiss SB2C Helldiver
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The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver was a dive bomber developed by Curtiss-Wright during World War II. Nicknames for the aircraft included "Big-Tailed Beast" or just "Beast", "Two-Cee", and "Son-of-a-Bitch 2nd
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…made famous by their use by Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers in China, over 3,000 C-46 Commando transport aircraft, and later in the war, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers. Its most visible success came with the P-40, variously known as the Tomahawk, Kittyhawk, and Warhawk, which were built between 1940 and 1944 at the…
A Curtiss SB2C Helldiver in tricolor scheme and tail markings for VB-80, operating off USS Hancock, February 1945
Curtiss XSB2C Helldiver prototype on its maiden flight
SB2C-4 from Yorktown off Iwo Jima
SB2C-1s in tricolor scheme (front) on the flight deck of Yorktown in 1943.