The Curtiss NC was a flying boat built by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company and used by the United States Navy from 1918 through the early 1920s. Ten of these aircraft were built, the most famous of which is the NC-4, the first airplane to make a transatlantic flight. The NC-4 is preserved in the National Museum of Naval Aviation, at NAS Pensacola, Florida.
Curtiss NC
NC-3 instrument panel (center nacelle)
NC-3 off the Azores, 1919.
Painting of the NC-4 flying over the icy North Atlantic
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