The Helldiver’s poor manufacturing was a superficial problem relative to its fundamentally flawed design. The aircraft was ...

On this day in aviation history, December 18, 1940, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber made its first flight. Plagued ...

The Curtiss-built SB2C-5 Helldiver aircraft ... Only one ever flew in RAAF colors before the ten were transferred to the USAAF. The Fagen Helldiver joins a collection of beautifully and faithfully ...

U.S. Navy divers are currently spending the week off the coast of Florida investigating quite an unusual find: A Curtiss SB2C Helldiver lying upside down approximately 185 feet below the water’s ...

Since his first story on July 21, 2009 Union-Tribune Outdoors reporter Ed Zieralski has been following the hunt for the rare Navy SB2C-4 Helldiver bomber that’s been resting on the muddy bottom ...

The aircraft, upside down and mostly intact, is indeed a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver as originally suspected, said Randy Jordan, the diver who discovered the plane Tuesday while diving at a depth of ...

The SB2C made her maiden flight on December 18 ... 50 caliber machine guns in pods installed on underwing hardpoints. In any event, the Helldiver was faster – by a differential of 40 mph ...

SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO — More stories, photos, video about the sunken Navy SB2C-4 Helldiver. Joe Corsi remembers being flown to Hope, Ark., in 1943 to work on a plane that had made a forced landing ...

The 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 last year ...

The SB2C Helldiver was dislodged from the reservoir floor Friday and brought to the surface after divers spent two days in zero-visibility water removing mud and debris that was holding the plane ...

The 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 last year ...