After 14 years of outdoor display at Pensacola, Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver BuNo 19866-recovered from California's Lower Otay Reservoir in 2010-has been transferred to the USS Midway Museum. Joining it ...

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 ...

On this day in aviation history, December 18, 1940, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber made its first flight. Plagued ...

The Curtiss-built SB2C-5 Helldiver aircraft, BuNo 83393, was originally built in early 1945 and was delivered to Naval Air Field Newport, Rhode Island. Very shortly after it was transferred to ...

The SB2C Helldiver, which operated off aircraft carriers, replaced the Douglas SPD Dauntless. Christian Gurling, curator at the Tillamook Air Museum, said it carried two crew members – the pilot ...

Dane Penland It was the last of a dying breed. When the Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver (dubbed “the Beast” by its pilots, and “Son of a Bitch 2nd Class” by its mechanics) eventually made its way ...