At the start of this year, the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, CA, welcomed the arrival of a rare Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver WWII dive ... s place in the gunner’s seat, and took off for a local ...

The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver ... also called the Helldiver (the Curtiss company seemed fond of the name). The SBC was a biplane design that began in 1933 as a two-seat fighter with dive bombing ...

The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver was a two-seat dive bomber initially introduced into combat in 1943. More than 7,000 SB2Cs were produced during World War II, although just one remains flying today.

The SB2C made her maiden flight on December 18 ... and the required corrections pushed delivery of the first production Helldiver back to June 1942 … The near-disastrous carrier trials in ...

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 ...

It is on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida (I toured it back in 2002 and can ... and the Navy brass concurred; the Helldiver completely supplanted the Dauntless ...

The SB2C Helldiver was dislodged from the reservoir floor Friday and brought to the surface after divers spent two days in zero-visibility water removing mud and debris that was holding the plane ...

The SB2C Helldiver aircraft was brought to the surface after days of work to free it from several feet of mud and debris on the dark floor of Lower Otay Reservoir, where it was spotted last year ...

The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver ... also called the Helldiver (the Curtiss company seemed fond of the name). The SBC was a biplane design that began in 1933 as a two-seat fighter with dive bombing ...