JDK's real mysteries No.1.

JDK · **Posted:** Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:57 am

What's the aircraft type?

From the State Library of Victoria, circa 1947:
[Australian woman facing American sailor, standing beneath aeroplane propellors, somewhere in Australia] [picture] From the Argus Newspaper archive. Accession No. H2000.200/1480

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:03 am

Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk. Those warm feelings will be nice..the temp here is hovering around Zero F!

SN

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11336

Curtiss prop with a single large float, radial engine and sitting on a catapult... Probably not a Sea Hurricane.

I'm guessing a Seahawk.

JDK · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:33 am

Thanks chaps. I had a guess at that, but wondered if there were any alternatives.
Cheers,

old iron · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2009 11:20 am

I think the Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk the most significant American WWII type that has no survivors. I have never even heard mention of a wreck in the ocean, though there must be something somewhere.

Does the Naval Aviation Musuem in Pensacola have a short list of "must-haves." Considering how much they spend on a Brewster Buffalo of non-American history, what might they do to retrieve a Seahawk?

Kevin

old iron · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2009 11:20 am

I think the Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk the most significant American WWII type that has no survivors. I have never even heard mention of a wreck in the ocean, though there must be something somewhere.

Does the Naval Aviation Musuem in Pensacola have a short list of "must-haves." Considering how much they spend on a Brewster Buffalo of non-American history, what might they do to retrieve a Seahawk?

Kevin

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2009 11:28 am

Unfortunately, I think it was one of those obscure types that "fell through the cracks." Not a huge number were built to begin with, and I don't think any were sold to foreign operators.

Well, the warm feelings worked..it's in the 40s today. Of course, all the melting snow has turned my driveway into a lake!

SN

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2009 11:45 am

I thought that there was one saved somewhere? I guess I am wrong, I just thought I remember seeing a pic.

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:12 pm

See this thread, page 3:

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... c&start=30

O.P., would you like to chime in?

RMAllnutt · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:40 pm

mustangdriver wrote:

I thought that there was one saved somewhere? I guess I am wrong, I just thought I remember seeing a pic.

Hey Chris... you might be thinking of the Columbia XJL-1, which has a similar general appearance to the Curtiss Sea Hawk. There are two of these stil around if I remember correctly...

Cheers,
Richard

Canso42 · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:03 pm

I was bout to guess 'Old Slow & Ugly' since as has been noted, the SC-1 is a little known type with no survivors.
How many XJL's were built. Only two wasn't it.? That thing looks like an SBD crossbred with a Grumman Duck.

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