| JN "Jenny" | |
|---|---|
 Curtiss JN-4 Jenny, 1918 | |
| General information | |
| Type | Trainer |
| Manufacturer | Curtiss |
| Designer | Benjamin D. Thomas |
| Primary users | U.S. Army Air Service |
| Number built | 6,813 |
| History | |
| Introduction date | 1915 |
| Retired | 1927 |
| Variants | Curtiss N-9 Curtiss JN-6H Curtiss Twin JN |
The Curtiss JN "Jenny" is a series of biplanes built by the Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Although the Curtiss JN series was originally produced as a training aircraft for the US Army, the "Jenny" (the common nickname derived from "JN") continued after World War I as a civilian aircraft, becoming the "backbone of American postwar [civil] aviation".[1]
Thousands of surplus Jennys were sold at bargain prices to private owners in the years after the war, and became central to the barnstorming era that helped awaken the US to civil aviation through much of the 1920s.[2]