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

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 bomber. The aircraft will be restored for display on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO — More stories, photos, video about the sunken Navy SB2C-4 Helldiver ... “Several years ago, they did restoration work for us on a plane that was brought up out of the ...

SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO — More stories, photos, video about the sunken Navy SB2C-4 Helldiver ... “They’ve already been in touch with us,” said Milford Wayne Donaldson, the state’s historic ...

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 ...

Between 1943 and 1945, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers were built ... to amend the various design flaws. When the Helldiver finally did join the Navy fleet, the aircraft, nicknamed “Beast ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...