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Curtiss NC-4 (P2N-1)

 Subject
Subject Source: Nasm
Scope Note: Aircraft

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

[Crowd gathered around Curtiss NC-4 flying boat], circa 1910s-1930s

 Item — Box Glass plates box 1, item: 037
Scope and Contents From the Series: With more than 229 cubic feet of material, including prints, negatives, transparencies and scrapbooks, the photographic component of the collection makes up the vast majority of the collection and is an incredible resource of documentary images of aircraft. The series is subdivided into five subseries: aircraft files, non-aircraft files, glass plates, scrapbooks and albums, and the Sommerich collection. The aircraft files are then subdivided by format: prints,...
Dates: circa 1910s-1930s

G. C. Westervelt letter to P. N. Jansen

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2014-12-17
Contents of the Collection

The collection contains a single-page typed letter from G. C. Westervelt to P. N. Jansen of the Curtiss Engineering Corporation, dated June 3, 1919. The letter to "My Dear Jansen" expresses gratitude for Jansen's "oversight of the construction of NC Flying boats" and offers congratulations on the "success of the [Curtiss] NC-4." It is signed by G. C. Westervelt, Commander, United States Navy.

Dates: June 3, 1919

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