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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.
Curtiss-Wright formed on July 5, 1929, the result of a merger of 12 companies associated with Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company of Buffalo, New York, and Wright Aeronautical of Dayton, Ohio. It was headquartered in Buffalo, New York. With $75 million in capital (equivalent to $12.78 billion in 2022), it became the largest aviation company in the United States.
By September 1929, Curtiss-Wright had also acquired the Moth Aircraft Corporation and Travel Air Manufacturing Company. Divisions There were three main divisions: the Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division, which manufactured airframes; the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, which produced aircraft engines; and the Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division, which manufactured propellers. After 1929, most engines produced by the new company were known as Wrights, while most aircraft were given the Curtiss name, with a few exceptions. Pre-World War II Throughout the 1930s, Curtiss-Wright designed and built aircraft for military, commercial, and private markets. But it was the Wright engine division and the longstanding relationship with the U.S. military that would help the company through the difficult years of the Great Depression. In 1937, the company developed the P-36 fighter aircraft, resulting in the largest peacetime aircraft order ever given by the Army Air Corps. Curtiss-Wright also sold the P-36 abroad, where they were used in the early days of World War II.
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| Traded as | NYSE: CW S&P 400 Component |
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| Founded | July 5, 1929 in Buffalo, New York, United States |
| Number of employees | 9,000 (2019) |
| Website | curtisswright |
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Wright Flyer - Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk - Curtiss P-36 Mohawk - Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk / Curtiss C-46 Commando -
Curtiss Wright C-12W - Curtiss SB2C Helldiver - Cortiss XP-55 Ascender
For more goto Curtiss/Wright Aircraft / Curtiss One / Curtiss Two / Curtiss ThreeFor more goto Travel Air
Product list Travel Air)
Travel Air 2000, originally model BH -Travel Air 4000, originally model BW -Travel Air 6000, cabin monoplane - Travel Air Mystery Ship
Travel Air years 1925
The Travel Air Manufacturing Company was an aircraft manufacturer established in Wichita, Kansas, United States in January 1925 by Clyde Cessna, Walter Beech, and Lloyd Stearman.
The company initially built a series of sporting and training open-cockpit biplanes, including the Model A, Model B, Model BH, and Model BW (These were subsequently renumbered.) Other types included the 5000 and 6000 high wing cabin monoplanes and the CW / 7000 mailplane.
The A differed in some minor details such as lacking the overhanging Fokker style ailerons that gave the rest of the series the nickname Wichita Fokker (not present on all of the later models though), while the B, BH and BW differed only in the engine installed – the A and B had a Curtiss OX-5, the BH had a Hispano-Suiza V-8, the BW had a Wright radial (of various types) though other radials would be installed later (especially after it became the 4000).
Aside from the Wichita Fokkers seen in such movies as Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels, likely the most famous[citation needed] of the open cockpit biplanes was N434N, a D4D (the ultimate derivative of the BW) painted in Pepsi colors for airshow and skywriting use which survives in the National Air & Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy annex. A second, backup D4D, N434P, used by Pepsi in later years to supplement and fill-in for the original aircraft, is housed in the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California.
The Travel Air 5000 was a Cessna design, ordered in small numbers for National Air Transport. Two were custom-built long-range endurance aircraft similar in concept to Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. Woolaroc, flown by Art Gobel won the disastrous Dole Air Race from Oakland, California to Hawaii in which the majority of contestants disappeared at sea or otherwise died attempting the crossing.
Travel Air then produced the model 6000, a five or six-seat high-wing cabin monoplane intended for airline use, and for very wealthy private owners.
The bicycle business of the Wright brothers, the Wright Cycle Company
The Wright Flyer (also known as the Kitty Hawk, Flyer I or the 1903 Flyer)
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter
The Curtiss O-52 Owl was an observation aircraft used by the United States Army Air Corps
The Type R "Mystery Ships" were a series of wire-braced, low-wing racing airplanes
The Travel Air 6000 (later known as the Curtiss-Wright 6B when Travel Air was purchased
| Role | Experimental airplane |
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| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Wright Cycle Company |
| Designer | Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| Number built | 1 |
| Developed from | Wright Glider |
| Developed into | Wright Flyer II Wright Flyer III |
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