At the start of this year, the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, CA, welcomed the arrival of a rare Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver WWII dive bomber. The aircraft will be restored for display on the retired ...

A U.S. Navy Icon Takes to the Skies After a 17-Year Restoration. On their Facebook page, The Fagen Fighters WWII Museum, located in Granite Falls, Minnesota, announced they’d completed a test flight ...

Between 1943 and 1945, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers were built. Initially, the aircraft displayed poor handling characteristics—earning a damning report from the waste-focused Truman Committee and the ...

Click to open image viewer. During World War II, U.S. Navy bombing squadrons flew Helldiver dive-bombers against Japan from November 1943 to the war’s end in September 1945. After a prolonged ...

The SB2C made her maiden flight on December 18, 1940, and officially entered into operational service with the U.S. Navy in December 1942. The plane was manufactured by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, ...

Docent Ashby Taylor tells the story behind the World War II SB2C Helldiver dive bomber inside WestPac Restorations while giving a tour Wednesday, July 24, 2025, at the National World War II Aviation ...

The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver could 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 with ...

U.S. Navy divers are investigating a rare, upside-down Curtiss SB2C Helldiver WWII aircraft found 185 feet deep off the coast of Florida. Initially discovered months ago by tech divers, Navy experts ...

George "Art" Plumador, 91, of Malone, N.Y., examines the restored Curtiss SB2C Helldiver he flew in during World War II at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center ...

Click to open image viewer. During World War II, U.S. Navy bombing squadrons flew Helldiver dive-bombers against Japan from November 1943 to the war’s end in September 1945. After a prolonged ...