The resulting SB2C Helldiver would feature an internal bomb bay, folding wings, and was powered a 14-cylinder Wright R-2600 ...

The U.S. Army Air Forces ordered some three thousand as the A-25 Shrike (which omitted the wing fold and tailhook, along with other minor differences from the SB2C). Nevertheless, the Helldiver ...

The SB2C made her ... included the loss of wings in steep dives or tails breaking off mid-air or at landing … As a result, crews came up with new names for the Helldiver. They nicknamed it ...

The SB2C Helldiver aircraft was brought to the surface ... A crowd watched Friday as the mud-caked, single-engine plane, with both wings attached, broke through the surface of the water then ...

U.S. Navy divers are currently spending the week off the coast of Florida investigating quite an unusual find: A Curtiss SB2C Helldiver lying upside down approximately 185 feet below the water’s ...

Navy pilot E.D. Frazar before he boards an SB2C-4 Helldiver. Frazar was the pilot of the Helldiver that ditched into the Lower Otay Reservoir on May 28, 1945.

The aircraft, upside down and mostly intact, is indeed a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver as originally ... material that was used to cover the wings on a Curtiss Helldiver, a Navy dive bomber.

The SB2C Helldiver aircraft was brought to the surface ... A crowd watched Friday as the mud-caked, single-engine plane, with both wings attached, broke through the surface of the water.

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 Curtiss SB2C Helldiver could have been the U.S. Navy’s frontline carrier-based dive bomber for much of World War II, ... But while the Helldiver could fold its wings to save space, ...