Curtiss-Wright Glider
Date1929
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions3 × 5 5/16 in. (7.6 × 13.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Clark Speakman
Object numberPA1968.001.126
DescriptionThe Curtiss-Wright Jr. is a self-powered glider at the Albuquerque Airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It has 45 hp Zekley motor and it is used for primary instruction. Hanger #2 is on the right. In the center frame, there is a parked high-wing "pusher" aircraft with the engine above the wing and the propeller on the rear. There is a building in the right frame and mountains in the background. There are telephone and electric wires running across the sky in the background.Typing on the border on the front of the photograph reads, "Curtiss Wright, Jr. with 45 hp Zekley motor. Used as primary trainer at Albuquerque."
On View
Not on viewLocale
ca. 1914
1930
1930
May 25, 1939
