P-60 | |
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General information | |
Type | Fighter aircraft |
Manufacturer | Curtiss-Wright |
Status | Canceled |
Primary user | United States Army Air Forces |
Number built | 1 XP-53 and 5 XP-60 (all converted into new variants)[1] |
History | |
Manufactured | 1942–1944 |
First flight | 18 September 1941 |
Retired | 22 December 1944 |
Developed from | Curtiss XP-46 |
The Curtiss P-60 was a 1940s American single-engine single-seat, low-wing monoplane fighter aircraft developed by the Curtiss-Wright company as a successor to their P-40. It went through a lengthy series of prototype versions, eventually evolving into a design that bore little resemblance to the P-40. None of these versions reached production.