{{Short description|1916–1929 aircraft manufacturer in the United States}} {{Redirect|Curtiss|the name of various people|Curtiss (name)|other uses}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox company | name = Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company, Ltd | logo = Curtiss logo.svg | image = | image_caption = | former_name = | type = [[public company|Public]] | industry = [[Aerospace]] | fate = Merged with [[Wright Aeronautical]] | predecessor = Curtiss Aeroplane Company<br />Curtiss Motor Company | successor = [[Curtiss-Wright]] | founded = {{Start date and age|1909|03}} | founders = [[Glenn H. Curtiss]] | defunct = {{End date|1929}} | hq_location_city = [[Buffalo, New York]] | hq_location_country = United States | num_locations = 3 | area_served = <!-- or: | areas_served = --> | key_people = [[Frank Henry Russell]] | products = | revenue = [[United States dollar|US$]]1.566 billion | owner = <!-- or: | owners = --> | num_employees = 21,000 | num_employees_year = 1916 | parent = [[Willys-Overland]]<br />(1917–1920) | subsid = {{Unbulleted list|[[Burgess Company]]<br />(1916–1919)<ref name="Pattillo" />|Curtiss Engineering Company<br />(1916–1932)}} | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }} The '''Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company''' (1909–1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by [[Glenn Curtiss|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.
==History== [[File:Curtiss-Herring Flying Machine.jpg|thumb|Curtiss-Herring flying machine photographed in Mineola, New York c. 1910s]]
=== Origin === In 1907, [[Glenn Curtiss]] was recruited by the scientist Dr. [[Alexander Graham Bell]] as a founding member of Bell's [[Aerial Experiment Association]] (AEA), with the intent of establishing an aeronautical research and development organization.<ref>Casey 1981, pp. 4–5.</ref> According to Bell, it was a "co-operative scientific association, not for gain but for the love of the art and doing what we can to help one another."<ref name="Milberry 13">Milberry 1979, p 13.</ref>
In 1909, shortly before the AEA was disbanded,<ref>Casey 1981, pp. 36–37.</ref> Curtiss partnered with [[Augustus Moore Herring]] to form the Herring-Curtiss Company'''.'''<ref name="Gunston p. 87">Gunston 1993, p. 87.</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite news|date=March 4, 1909|title=Aeroplane Factory for This Country|page=9|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/03/04/101868767.pdf|access-date=November 11, 2021}}</ref> It was renamed the Curtiss Aeroplane Company in 1910 and reorganized in 1912 after being taken over by the Curtiss Motor Company.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Curtiss Company Reorganized |magazine=Aero |date=6 January 1912 |volume=3 |issue=14 |page=274 |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435057646713&seq=334 |accessdate=26 June 2021}}</ref><ref name="bell">Bell 2002, p. 87.</ref><ref>Casey 1981, p. 37.</ref>
===Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company=== [[File: Curtiss flying boat2.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Curtiss [[flying boat]] tested on [[Keuka Lake]], New York (c. 1910-1915)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066356951&seq=430 |title= Curtiss flying boat |date=1913-04-01|publisher= Gas review v. 6 (1913) |access-date=2026-03-31}}</ref>]] [[File:Curtiss plane - College Park.jpg|thumb|Curtiss military aircraft being tested in [[College Park, Maryland|College Park]], [[Maryland]] circa 1912]] [[File:Curtis Biplane.JPG|thumb|Curtiss 160 [[Horsepower|hp]] reconnaissance biplane (1918)]] [[File:New York - Garden City - NARA - 68145487 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Curtiss Aeroplane factory in Garden City in 1928]]
The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was created on January 13, 1916, from the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of [[Hammondsport, New York]], and Curtiss Motor Company of [[Bath, New York]]. [[Burgess Company]] of [[Marblehead, Massachusetts]], became a subsidiary in February 1916.<ref name="mondey">Mondey and Taylor 2000, p. 197.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=New Curtiss Aeroplane Company is Organized |url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/276080410 |access-date=15 September 2020 |work=Elmira Star-Gazette |date=31 December 1915 |page=2}}</ref> At the same time, the [[Curtiss Engineering Company]] was established as a subsidiary in [[Garden City, New York]].<ref name="Pattillo">{{cite book |last1=Pattillo |first1=Donald M. |title=Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry |date=2001 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |page=23}}</ref>{{efn|This plant would operate until 1932.<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Village of Garden City |vol=57 |reporter=N.Y.S.2d |pinpoint=377 |court=Supreme Court, Special Term, Nassau County |date=11 June 1945 |url=http://casetext.com/case/curtiss-wright-corp-v-village-of-garden-city-1 |access-date=1 November 2021}}{{dead link|date=August 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> After being used for the Nassau Collegiate Center and leased to the Sperry Gyroscope Company during World War II, the building was eventually sold in 1948.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Howell |first1=Beryl |title=30-Yr. Battle Finally Ends |url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/712366659 |access-date=1 November 2021 |work=Newsday |date=29 January 1949}}</ref>}}
With the onset of [[World War I]], military orders rose sharply, and Curtiss needed to expand quickly. In 1916, the company moved its headquarters and most manufacturing activities to [[Buffalo, New York]], where there was far greater access to transportation, manpower, manufacturing expertise, and much needed capital. The company housed an aircraft engine factory in the former [[Taylor Signal Company-General Railway Signal Company]].<ref name="NysNrhpNom"> {{cite web |url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150701003048/http://cris.parks.ny.gov/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-07-01 |title=Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS) |publisher=[[New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation]] |format=Searchable database |access-date=2015-11-01 }} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web |url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=294874&q=false |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Taylor Signal Company-General Railway Signal Company |access-date=2015-11-01 |author=Martin Wachadlo and Francis R. Kowsky |format=PDF |date=February 2014 }} and [https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=294875&q=false ''Accompanying photographs'']</ref> An ancillary operation was begun in Toronto, Ontario, that was involved in both production and training, setting up the first flying school in Canada in 1915.<ref>Molson and Taylor 1982, p. 23.</ref>
Up to 1917, the two major aircraft patent holders, the [[Wright Company]] and the Curtiss Company, had fought the [[Wright brothers patent war]]. This effectively blocked the building of new airplanes which were desperately needed as the United States was entering [[World War I]]. The U.S. government, as a result of a recommendation of a committee formed by [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], then [[Assistant Secretary of the Navy]], pressured the industry to form a cross-licensing organization (in other terms a [[Patent pool]]), the [[Manufacturer's Aircraft Association]].<ref name="ipbiz">{{cite web | url=http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2006/07/patent-thickets-and-wright-brothers.html | title=Patent thickets and the Wright Brothers | publisher=ipbiz.blogspot.com | quote=''In 1917, as a result of a recommendation of a committee formed by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (The Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt), an aircraft patent pool was privately formed encompassing almost all aircraft manufacturers in the United States. The creation of the Manufacturer's Aircraft Association was crucial to the U.S. government because the two major patent holders, the Wright Company and the Curtiss Company, had effectively blocked the building of any new airplanes, which were desperately needed as the United States was entering World War I.'' | date=2006-07-01 | access-date=2009-03-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030065359/http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2006/07/patent-thickets-and-wright-brothers.html | archive-date=2007-10-30 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref> {{cite web | url=https://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/article/197 | title= The Wright Brothers, Patents, and Technological Innovation | publisher=buckeyeinstitute.org | quote=''This unusual arrangement could have been interpreted as a violation of antitrust law, but fortunately it was not. It served a clear economic purpose: preventing the holder of a single patent on a critical component from holding up creation of an entire aircraft. Practically, the pool had no effect on either market structure or technological advances. Speed, safety, and reliability of US made airplanes improved steadily over the years the pool existed (up to 1975). Over that time several firms held large shares of the commercial aircraft market: Douglas, Boeing, Lockheed, Convair, and Martin, but no one of them dominated it for very long.'' | access-date=2009-03-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4103/ch2.htm | title= The Cross-Licensing Agreement | publisher=history.nasa.gov | access-date=2009-03-07}}</ref> Later that year, Curtiss was acquired by the automobile manufacturer [[Willys-Overland]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Willys-Overland Controls Curtiss Aeroplane |url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/32697015 |access-date=15 September 2020 |work=Wall Street Journal |date=16 August 1917 |page=5}}</ref>
Curtiss was instrumental in the development of U.S. Naval Aviation by providing training for pilots and providing aircraft. The first major order was for 144 various subtypes of the [[Curtiss Model F|Model F]] trainer flying boat.<ref name="Gunston p. 87"/> In 1914, Curtiss had lured [[B. Douglas Thomas]] from [[Sopwith Aviation Company|Sopwith]] to design the [[Curtiss Model J|Model J]] trainer, which led to the [[Curtiss JN-4|JN-4]] two-seat biplane trainer (known affectionately as the "Jenny").<ref>Casey 1981, pp. 103, 123–124, 134–136, 174–175.</ref><ref>Casey 1981, pp. 176–179.</ref>
The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company worked with the United States' British and Canadian allies, resulting in JN-4 (Can) trainers (nicknamed the "Canuck") being built in Canada.<ref>Casey 1981, p. 196.</ref> In order to complete large military orders, JN-4 production was distributed to five other manufacturers. After the war, large numbers of JN-4s were sold as surplus, making influential as the first plane for many interwar pilots, including [[Amelia Earhart]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Humble WWI Biplane That Helped Launch Commercial Flight|url = https://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-humble-wwi-biplane-that-helped-launch-commercial-flight/|access-date = 2015-09-01|publisher = Wired|date = 2014-08-14}}</ref> A stamp was printed to [[Inverted Jenny|commemorate the Curtiss JN-4]], however a printing error resulted in some having the aircraft image inverted, which has become very valuable, and one of the best known rare stamps, even being featured in a number of movies.
The Curtiss [[Curtiss HS|HS-2L]] flying boat was used extensively in the war for anti-submarine patrols and was operated from bases in [[Nova Scotia]], [[France]], and [[Portugal]]. [[John Cyril Porte]] of the [[Royal Navy]] and Curtiss worked together to improve the design of the Curtiss flying boats resulting in the [[Curtiss F5L]] and the similar [[Felixstowe F.3]]. Curtiss also worked with the [[United States Navy]] to develop the [[Curtiss NC-4|NC-4]], which became the first aircraft to fly across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in 1919, making several stops en route. By the end of World War I, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company would claim to be the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, employing 18,000 in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]] and 3,000 in Hammondsport, New York. Curtiss produced 10,000 aircraft during that war, and more than 100 in a single week.
Peace brought cancellation of wartime contracts. In September 1920, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company underwent a financial reorganization and [[Glenn Curtiss]] cashed out his stock in the company for $32 million and retired to [[Florida]].<ref>Rosenberry 1972, p. 429.</ref> He continued as a director of the company but served only as an advisor on design. [[Clement Melville Keys|Clement M. Keys]] gained control of the company from Willys-Overland and it later became the nucleus of a large group of aviation companies.<ref>Studer 1937 p. 352</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Curtiss Company Sold to C. M. Keys |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1920/09/26/archives/curtiss-company-sold-to-cm-keys-vice-president-of-airplane-concern.html |access-date=15 September 2020 |work=New York Times |date=26 September 1920 |page=1}}</ref>
Curtiss seaplanes won the [[Schneider Cup]] in two consecutive races, those of 1923 and 1925. The 1923 race was won by U.S. Navy lieutenant David Rittenhouse flying a [[Curtiss R3C]] to {{convert|177.266|mph|km/h}}. Piloted by [[U.S. Army]] Lt. [[Cyrus K. Bettis]], a Curtiss R3C won the [[Pulitzer Trophy]] on October 12, 1925, at {{convert|248.9|mph|km/h}}.<ref>[http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19280002000 "Curtiss R3C-2."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106064928/http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19280002000 |date=January 6, 2012 }} '' Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum''. Retrieved: February 10, 2010.</ref> Thirteen days later, [[Jimmy Doolittle]] won the [[Schneider Trophy]] in the same aircraft fitted with floats with a top speed of {{convert|232.573|mph|km/h}}.
The [[Curtiss Robin]] light transport was first flown in 1928, becoming one of the company's biggest sellers during the [[Great Depression]], and the 769 built helped keep the company solvent when orders for military aircraft were hard to find.
===Curtiss-Wright Corporation=== On July 5, 1929, Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company together with 11 other Wright and Curtiss affiliated companies merged to become the [[Curtiss-Wright Corporation]]. One of the last projects started by Curtiss Aeroplane was the ambitious [[Curtiss-Bleecker SX-5-1 Helicopter]], a design that had propellers located midpoint on each of the four large rotors that drove the main rotors. This design, while costly and well engineered, was ultimately a failure.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UigDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20 "New Plane May Fly Straight Up In The Air."] ''Popular Science,'' September 1930.</ref>
===Curtiss Aviation School=== Curtiss also operated a flying school at [[Long Branch Aerodrome]] in [[Toronto Township, Ontario]], from 1915 to 1917 before being taken over by the [[Royal Flying Corps Canada]].<ref name="long">[http://www.etobicokehistorical.com/Stories/Long_Branch/body_long_branch.html Long Branch] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105205628/http://www.etobicokehistorical.com/Stories/Long_Branch/body_long_branch.html |date=2009-01-05 }}</ref>
===Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station=== Glenn H. Curtiss sponsored the [[Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station]] on a 20-acre tract east of the [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]] boat harbor in the Fall of 1915 with Captain [[Thomas Scott Baldwin]] as head. Many civilian students, including Canadians, later became famed World War I flyers. [[Victor Carlstrom]], [[Vernon Castle]], [[Eddie Stinson]] and General [[Billy Mitchell]] trained here. The school was disbanded in 1922.
==Products==
===Aircraft=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Model name ! First flight ! Number built ! Type
|- |align=left| [[Curtiss No. 1]] |align=center| 1909 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Experimental single engine biplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss No. 2]] |align=center| 1909 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Experimental single engine biplane |- |align=left| [[Pfitzner Flyer]] |align=center| 1910 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Experimental single engine monoplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model D]] |align=center| 1910 |align=center| |align=left| Single engine biplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model E]] |align=center| 1911 |align=center| |align=left| Single engine biplane floatplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model F]] |align=center| 1912 |align=center| 150+ |align=left| Single engine biplane flying boat |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model J]] |align=center| 1914 |align=center| 2 |align=left| Single engine biplane trainer |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model H]] |align=center| 1914 |align=center| 478 |align=left| family of classes of long-range flying boats |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model K]] |align=center| 1915 |align=center| 51+ |align=left| Single engine biplane flying boat |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model R]] |align=center| 1915 |align=center| ~290 |align=left| Single engine biplane utility plane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss C-1 Canada]] |align=center| 1915 |align=center| 12 |align=left| Twin engine biplane bomber |- |align=left| [[Curtiss JN-4]] |align=center| 1915 |align=center| 6,813 |align=left| Single engine biplane trainer |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model L]] |align=center| 1916 |align=center| 4+ |align=left| Single engine triplane trainer |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model N]] |align=center| 1916 |align=center| 560 |align=left| Single engine biplane floatplane trainer |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model T]] |align=center| 1916 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Four engine triplane flying boat patrol bomber |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Twin JN]] |align=center| 1916 |align=center| 8 |align=left| Twin engine biplane observation airplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss HS]] |align=center| 1917 |align=center| ~1,178 |align=left| Single engine biplane flying boat patrol airplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss GS]] |align=center| 1918 |align=center| 6 |align=left| Single engine biplane floatplane scout |- |align=left| [[Curtiss HA]] |align=center| 1918 |align=center| 6 |align=left| Single engine biplane fighter/mailplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss JN-6H]] |align=center| 1918 |align=center| 1,035 |align=left| Single engine biplane trainer |- |align=left| [[Curtiss NC]] |align=center| 1918 |align=center| 10 |align=left| Four engine biplane flying boat patrol airplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss 18]] |align=center| 1918 |align=center| 8 |align=left| Single engine biplane/triplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Eagle]] |align=center| 1919 |align=center| ~24 |align=left| Three engine biplane airliner |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Oriole]] |align=center| 1919 |align=center| |align=left| Single engine biplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Cox Racer]] |align=center| 1920 |align=center| 2 |align=left| Single engine monoplane/biplane/triplane racer |- |align=left| [[Curtiss CR]] |align=center| 1921 |align=center| 4 |align=left| Single engine biplane racer |- |align=left| [[Curtiss CT]] |align=center| 1921 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Twin engine biplane torpedo bomber |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Orenco D]] |align=center| 1921 |align=center| 50 |align=left| Single engine biplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss P-1 Hawk]] |align=center| 1923 |align=center| 107 |align=left| Single engine biplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss CS]] |align=center| 1923 |align=center| 83 |align=left| Single engine biplane torpedo bomber |- |align=left| [[Curtiss R2C]] |align=center| 1923 |align=center| 3 |align=left| Single engine biplane racer |- |align=left| [[Curtiss R3C]] |align=center| 1925 |align=center| 3 |align=left| Single engine biplane racer |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Carrier Pigeon]] |align=center| 1925 |align=center| 12 |align=left| Single engine biplane mailplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss F6C Hawk]] |align=center| |align=center| 75 |align=left| Single engine biplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss F7C Seahawk]] |align=center| 1927 |align=center| 17 |align=left| Single engine biplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Falcon]] |align=center| |align=center| 488 |align=left| Single engine biplane observation/attack airplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Fledgling]] |align=center| 1927 |align=center| ~160 |align=left| Single engine biplane trainer |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Robin]] |align=center| 1928 |align=center| 769 |align=left| Single engine cabin monoplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Tanager]] |align=center| 1929 |align=center| 1 |align=left| Experimental single engine cabin biplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Thrush]] |align=center| 1929 |align=center| 13 |align=left| Single engine cabin monoplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Kingbird]] |align=center| 1929 |align=center| 19 |align=left| Twin engine monoplane airliner |- |align=left| [[Curtiss XO-30]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt twin engine monoplane observation plane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss P-6 Hawk]] |align=center| |align=center| 70 |align=left| Single engine biplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss XP-10]] |align=center| |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype single engine biplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss XP-18]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt single engine biplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss XP-19]] |align=center| N/A |align=center| 0 |align=left| Unbuilt single engine monoplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss YP-20]] |align=center| |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype single engine biplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss XP-22 Hawk]] |align=center| |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype single engine biplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss PN-1]] |align=center| |align=center| 1 |align=left| Prototype single engine biplane night fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss B-2 Condor]] |align=center| |align=center| 13 |align=left| Twin engine biplane bomber |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model 41 Lark]] |align=center| |align=center| 3 |align=left| Single engine biplane floatplane |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Model S]] |align=center| |align=center| ~8 |align=left| Single engine biplane/triplane fighter |- |align=left| [[Curtiss Autoplane]] |align=center| |align=center| 1 |align=left| Roadable aircraft |- |align=left| [[Curtiss F5L]] |align=center| |align=center| 60 |align=left| Twin engine biplane flying boat |- |align=left| [[Curtiss TS]] |align=center| |align=center| 34 |align=left| Single engine biplane fighter |- |}
=== Aircraft engines ===
{{div col|colwidth=22em}} * [[Curtiss A-2 (engine)]] * [[Curtiss OX-5]] * [[Curtiss OXX]] * [[Curtiss C-6]] * [[Curtiss D-12]] (Curtiss V-1150)<!--1923--> * [[Curtiss K-12]] * [[Curtiss V-2]] * [[Curtiss V-1570]] Conqueror <!--1926--> * [[Curtiss H-1640]] Chieftain <!--1926--> * [[Curtiss R-600]] Challenger * [[Curtiss R-1454]] {{div col end}}
=== Helicopters === * [[Curtiss-Bleecker SX-5-1 Helicopter]]
==See also== * [[Alfred V. Verville]]
==References== ===Footnotes=== {{Notelist}}
===Notes=== {{Reflist|30em}}
===Bibliography=== * Bell, Dana, ed. ''Directory of Airplanes, their Designers and Manufacturers''. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2002. {{ISBN|1-85367-490-7}}. * Bowers, Peter M. ''Curtiss Aircraft 1907–1947''. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1979. {{ISBN|0-370-10029-8}}. * Casey, Louis S. [https://books.google.com/books?id=PXtGAAAAYAAJ ''Curtiss, The Hammondsport Era, 1907–1915'']. New York: Crown Publishers, 1981. {{ISBN|978-0-517543-26-9}}. * Gunston, Bill. ''World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers''. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1993. {{ISBN|1-55750-939-5}}. * Mondey, David, ed., revised and updated by Michael Taylor. ''The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft.'' London: Greenwich Editions, 2000. {{ISBN|0-86288-268-0}}. * Milberry, Larry. ''Aviation in Canada.'' Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1979. {{ISBN|0-07-082778-8}}. * Milberry, Larry. ''Aviation in Canada: The Pioneer Decades, Vol. 1.'' Toronto, Ontario, Canada: CANAV Books, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-921022-19-0}}. * Molson, Ken M. and Harold A. Taylor. ''Canadian Aircraft Since 1909''. Stittsville, Ontario: Canada's Wings, Inc., 1982. {{ISBN|0-920002-11-0}}. * [[John Olszowka|Olszowka, John]]. "From Shop Floor To Flight: Work and Labor in the Aircraft Industry, 1908-1945." Ph.D. Dissertation, Binghamton University, 2000. * [[Robert Sobel|Sobel, Robert]]. ''The Age of Giant Corporations: A Microeconomic History of American Business, 1914–1970''. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1972. {{ISBN|0-8371-6404-4}}. * Roseberry, C.R. ''Glenn Curtiss: Pioneer of Flight''. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1972. {{ISBN|0-8156-0264-2}}. * Studer, Clara. ''Sky Storming Yankee: The Life of Glenn Curtiss''. New York: Stackpole Sons, 1937.
==External links== {{Commons category}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090511185648/http://centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Curtiss/Aero2.htm The Curtiss Company: U.S. Centennial of Flight Commemoration] * [https://buffaloah.com/h/aero/aero.html History of the Aerospace Industry in Buffalo, NY]
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