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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.
La Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company fue un fabricante estadounidense de aviones que comenzó a cotizar en la bolsa en 1916 con Glenn Hammond Curtiss como presidente.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships.
As a result of Glenn Curtiss' early success, The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company became the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world during World War I and went public in 1916 with Curtiss as president.
Curtiss-Wright formed on July 5, 1929, the result of a merger of 12 companies associated with Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company of Buffalo, New York, and Wright Aeronautical of Dayton, Ohio. It was headquartered in Buffalo, New York .
Glenn Hammond Curtiss (born May 21, 1878, Hammondsport, N.Y., U.S.—died July 23, 1930, Buffalo) was a pioneer aviator and leading American manufacturer of aircraft by the time of the United States’s entry into World War I.
As one of the leading motor builders in America, Curtiss eventually received the attention of the balloonist Thomas Scott Baldwin. In 1904, Baldwin flew his airship—the California Arrow —at the St. Louis World’s Fair. The ship was powered by a Curtiss engine.
