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Curtiss Model D Type IV Pusher
Reconnaissance Aircraft, USA, 1911

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US Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Curtiss Model D Type IV Pusher, S/N Replika

This is a replica built in 1985-87 by US Air Force
Museum Personnel. It's build after the very airplane
that was accepted at Fort Sam, Houston, Texas, on
April 27 1911, one of 5 airplanes ordered by the army
that year. Since no original drawings or other
construction papers were available, the replica of no.
2 Pusher relies on fotos, other original Pushers and
some recent drawings. Except the engine all materials
used are essentially the same as used in the
original.