On October 14, 1938, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, an American single-engine fighter-bomber took its first soar in the skies as a rugged, adaptable aircraft.After significant modifications that ...

Object Details Artist William John Heaslip Physical Description Colored offset lithograph of a Curtiss "Warhawk" P-40 in battle over mountains. Another P-40 is in the background firing on a Japanese ...

But even if P-40s were leaving Curtiss-Wright factories like snow during a lake effect event, the company still had room to formulate a plan to eventually replace the P-40 outright with something ...

The P-40E Kittyhawk was the first model with this gun package and it entered service in time to serve in the AVG. The last model produced in quantity was the P-40N, the lightest P-40 built in quantity ...

Its Infamous Smile. Today, it is almost impossible to see a surviving Curtiss P-40 without the infamous “shark smile” painted on the front. And most who know anything about World War II would ...

Some time ago, we took a trip to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Central New York, where museum staff had managed to piece together the remains of two Curtiss P-40 Warhawks that'd collided mid-air ...

Introducing the P-40 Warhawk. Over 13,000 P-40s were built—all in Buffalo, New York, at the Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s main production facility.

To learn more about Glenn H. Curtiss and the P-40 Warhawk, visit the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum daily, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 8419 State Route 54, Hammondsport, NY 14840.

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk: Butch Schroeder, Craig Davidson and David Burroughs at 1 p.m. July 23. Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe and North American P-51 Mustang: ...