Curtiss SBC-3 Helldiver U.S. Navy, National Museum of Naval Aviation, photo No. 1996.253.094 Even as the Navy placed its first orders for the biplane SBC in 1936, the Navy was already looking for ...

The aviation world has welcomed a third Curtiss SB2C-1A Helldiver to the skies ... used by U.S. Navy aircraft starting in 1943, with paint provided by Consolidated Aircraft Coatings.

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 ...

Between 1943 and 1945, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers were ... Production proved a slow-go, as Curtiss worked to amend the various design flaws. When the Helldiver finally did join the Navy fleet ...

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 ...

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 problems with its development delayed its introduction and saddled it ...