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Curtiss-Wright employed 180,000 workers, and ranked second among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts, behind only General Motors. [8] [9] The main building of the Curtiss-Wright company at Caldwell, New Jersey, 1941. Curtiss-Wright: Biggest Aviation Company Expands Its Empire. This is an overall perspective ...
Columbia Field, originally Curtiss Field, is a former airfield near Valley Stream within the Town of Hempstead on Long Island, New York. Between 1929 and 1933 it was a public airfield named Curtiss Field after the Curtiss-Wright aircraft corporation that owned it. The public airfield closed after 1933, but aircraft continued to be manufactured ...
The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1909–1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore Herring in Hammondsport, New York. After significant commercial success in its first decades, it merged with the Wright Aeronautical to form Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
Calspan Corporation is a science and technology company founded in 1943 as part of the Research Laboratory of the Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division at Buffalo, New York. Calspan consists of four primary operating units: Flight Research, Transportation Research, Aerospace Sciences Transonic Wind Tunnel, and Crash Investigations.
Buffalo MAP, Buffalo; Joint use USAAF/Civil Airport Aircraft modification center. Also contract flying school operated by Curtiss-Wright Corp. Now: Buffalo Niagara International Airport (IATA: BUF, ICAO: KBUF, FAA LID: BUF) Farmingdale AAF, Farmingdale; 436th Army Air Force Base Unit Used by Republic Aircraft Now: Republic Airport (IATA: FRG ...
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Curtiss Field, a 300-acre (120 ha) airport on the original site of Hazelhurst Field, occupied half of the western portion along Clinton Road. Roosevelt Field occupied the remainder, consisting of seven hangars and a large parking ramp adjacent to Curtiss Field, and an east–west packed clay runway 5,000 feet (1,500 m) in length on the bluff.
Columbia Field, a former airport in Valley Stream, New York, that was named Curtiss Airfield in the 1930s; St. Louis Downtown Airport, which was formerly known as Curtiss-Steinberg Airport between 1929 and 1940; Lawrence J. Timmerman Airport of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, formerly named Curtiss-Wright Field from 1929-1959