The Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a manufacturer and services provider headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina, with factories and operations in and outside the United States. Created in 1929 from the consolidation of Curtiss, Wright, and various supplier companies, the company was immediately the country's largest aviation firm and built more than 142,000 aircraft engines for the U.S. military during World War II.
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 Aeroplane and Motor Company
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore Herring in Hammondsport, New York. After significant commercial success in its first decades, it merged with the Wright Aeronautical to form Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
Curtiss-Herring flying machine photographed in Mineola, New York.
Curtiss Aeroplane factory in Garden City in 1928
Curtiss 160 hp reconnaissance biplane (1918)
Curtiss military aircraft being tested in College Park, Maryland circa 1912