Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company

Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company, Ltd
Company typePublic
IndustryAerospace
PredecessorCurtiss Aeroplane Company
Curtiss Motor Company
FoundedMarch 1909; 115 years ago (March 1909)
FoundersGlenn H. Curtiss
Defunct1929 (1929)
FateMerged with Wright Aeronautical
SuccessorCurtiss-Wright
Headquarters,
United States of America
Number of locations
3
Key people
Frank Henry Russell
RevenueUS$1.566 billion
Number of employees
21,000 (1916)
ParentWillys-Overland
(1917–1920)
Subsidiaries

Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1909–1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore Herring in Hammondsport, New York. After significant commercial success in its first decades, it merged with the Wright Aeronautical to form Curtiss-Wright Corporation.

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