On this day in aviation history, December 18, 1940, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber made its first flight. Plagued ...

At the start of this year, the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, CA, welcomed the arrival of a rare Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver WWII dive bomber. The aircraft will be restored for display on the ...

But the SB2C was an advance ... A second aircraft, a Sikorsky JRS-1 amphibious seaplane—the only surviving example in the world—joined the Helldiver in the hangar in March.