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

The Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver recently transferred to the USS Midway Museum was originally accepted into the US Navy’s inventory on July 25, 1944, and delivered two days later on July 27 under ...

The Curtiss-built SB2C-5 Helldiver aircraft ... During World War II, the United States Navy chose the SB2C to supplement their current fleet of SBD Dauntless dive bombers. It would be the last ...

As beautifully as the SBD performed during WWII, its critics point out that it was already obsolescent by the start of the war, and the Navy brass concurred; the Helldiver completely supplanted ...

As the bent prop of the wounded, but still intact Helldiver bomber slowly emerged from Lower Otay Reservoir Friday afternoon, two F-18 Navy Hornets ... of a lifetime for us to work on a project ...

"Certainly worth the unplanned vacation to California." The Navy SB2C-4 Helldiver sank 90 feet to the bottom of Lower Otay Reservoir 65 years ago. On Wednesday, salvage experts brought up a ...

The Douglas A-1 Skyraider was designed for the US Navy in the final years ... to build a replacement for the Navy's venerable Grumman TBF Avenger and Curtiss SB2C Helldiver torpedo and dive ...

But a month after the Pearl Harbor attack, Levenson left school a semester short of graduating so he could join the Navy. He flew about 50 combat missions in Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bombers ...

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver scout-bomber, of Bombing Squadron Ten (VB-10), flies over Tientsin, China, as the city is ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A World War II dive bomber that crashed into a South Bay reservoir more than 65 years ago could spend one more water-logged night, after new delays cropped up Thursday to plague ...

Curtiss SB2C Helldiver ★ The Helldiver was the last dive-bomber operated by the Navy and the last significant combat aircraft produced by Curtiss-Wright. Hard to handle, it was best reserved for ...