Model 56 Thrush/Thrush J | |
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Thrush J "Outdoor Girl" setting a record of 237 hours 42 minutes aloft (nearly 10 days) in 1933 | |
Role | Airliner/utility transport |
Manufacturer | Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company |
Designer | T.P. Wright[1][2] |
First flight | 1929[1] |
Status | Retired |
Number built | 13[3][4] |
Developed into | Curtiss Kingbird |
The Curtiss/Curtiss-Robertson Model 56 Thrush[note 1] was a 1929 six passenger high-wing fixed undercarriage single-engine cabin monoplane airliner and utility transport powered by either a Curtiss Challenger or a Wright Whirlwind radial engine[1] and built as an enlargement of the earlier Curtiss Robin.[2] Several were used for record breaking endurance flights by female pilots during the early 1930s including one in which the aircraft stayed aloft for almost ten days.
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