The Curtiss SB2C-1a Helldiver, one of only three airworthy models left in the world, made its first public flight July 19 ...

Introducing the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver. Between 1943 and 1945, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers were built. Initially, the aircraft displayed poor handling characteristics—earning a damning report ...

Curtiss manufactured 900 fixed-wing A-25 dive bombers at its St. Louis, Missouri, factory under contract to the Army Air Forces with final delivery to the Marine Corps. The U.S. Navy accepted NASM’s ...

Curtiss SBC-3 Helldiver U.S. Navy, National Museum of Naval Aviation, photo No. 1996.253.094 Even as the Navy placed its first orders for the biplane SBC in 1936, the Navy was already looking for ...

The mystery surrounding a downed World War II-era plane found at the bottom of the ocean has been partially solved. The aircraft, upside down and mostly intact, is indeed a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver a… ...

The Curtiss-built SB2C-5 Helldiver aircraft, BuNo 83393, was originally built in early 1945 and was delivered to Naval Air Field Newport, ... The airplane, especially earlier models, ...

The Case for the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver. As beautifully as the SBD performed during WWII, its critics point out that it was already obsolescent by the start of the war, and the Navy brass ...

The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver could have been the U.S. Navy’s frontline carrier-based dive bomber for much of World War II, but problems with its development delayed its introduction and saddled it ...

Introducing the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver. Between 1943 and 1945, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers were built. Initially, the aircraft displayed poor handling characteristics—earning a damning report ...