After overcoming years of challenges, the Commemorative Air Force West Texas Wing's SB2C Helldiver is ready to soar again.

Between 1943 and 1945, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers were built ... and the ire of pilots and aircraft commanders alike. The Helldiver was much larger than the Dauntless, and improved, in theory ...

The Helldiver’s poor manufacturing was a superficial problem relative to its fundamentally flawed design. The aircraft was ...