The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, initially plagued by design flaws, underwent over 800 modifications to become a formidable WWII ...

The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver was supposed to be the Navy’s next great dive bomber—until it turned into a design disaster. With ...

The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver would 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 ...

The SB2C was the third carrier-based dive bomber called “Helldiver” and produced by Curtiss. “Hell diver” was a heroic and death-defying name for both pilots and aircraft in the popular American ...

The Helldiver was the last dive-bomber operated by the Navy and the last significant combat aircraft produced by Curtiss-Wright Corporation. The Udvar-Hazy Center, which opened in December 2003, ...

A WWII Curtiss SB2C-1a Helldiver took flight after restoration, thrilling crowds at the National Museum of World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs.

Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver scout-bomber, of Bombing Squadron Ten (VB-10), flies over Tientsin, China, as the city is reoccupied by the Allies, Sept. 5, 1945.

The Curtiss 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 ...

The mystery surrounding a downed World War II-era plane found at the bottom of the ocean has been partially solved. The aircraft, upside down and mostly intact, is indeed a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver a… ...

The recovery of a five-foot propeller and a .30 caliber machine gun in the waters off Chappaquiddick led researchers to think they have discovered a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver that crashed in 1946.

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 ...