The Curtiss - Wright Corporation
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The Curtiss-Wright Corporation is one of the most diverse nations of North
America. With holdings in what would be five different countries
the break-up of the United States threatened to destroy the corporation
as it did to North American Aviation, but with the release of the J-1 Ascender
in 1931 and adoptation of inventive shipping and management policies the
company bounced back with avengence.
The Curtiss-Wright Corporation was founded in Dayton, Ohio as the Wright
Company but unfornetly spent there early years fighting patent infringemnet
cases witch brought sizebul sums from royalties. With no new aircraft
designs the Wright Company soon found itself outclased by its competetors
and after the death of Wilbur Wright's brother the company was sold to
a New York Financer Glenn H. Curtiss. The newly reborn Curtiss-Wright
Corporation, as it was now called, quickly expanded to inlcuce plants in
Buffalo and Kenmore in New York, Columus, Ohio, St. Louis, MO, and Louisville,
Kentucky.
Statistics
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Name - The Curtiss-Wright Corporation
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CEO - Glenn Wagner
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Headquarters - Columbia
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Plants - Buffalo and Kenmore, NY; Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; St.
Louis, MO; Louisville,
Kentucky
Aircraft
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Curtiss-Wright J1 Ascender
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Curtiss-Wright J2 Fury
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Curtiss-Wright J3 Eagle
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Curtiss-Wright J4 Crusader
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Curtiss-Wright P2 Warhawk
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