"R2C" redirects here. For other uses, see R2C (disambiguation).
Model 32, R2C, R-8
Role
Racing aircraft
Type of aircraft
Manufacturer
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
First flight
9 September 1923
Primary users
United States Navy United States Army
Number built
3
The Curtiss R2C was a racing aircraft designed for the United States Navy in 1923 by Curtiss. It was a single-seater biplane with a monocoque fuselage and staggered single-bay wings of unequal span braced with I-struts. The aircraft's advanced streamlining featured a top wing mounted directly to the top of the fuselage and surface-mounted radiators for cooling the engine. The aircraft was originally designed and built as a landplane under the Navy designation R2C-1,[1] of which two examples were produced. One was converted into a seaplane version known as the R2C-2 the following year.
^While they were dedicated Racing aircraft, they also received the "paper" designation F2C as fighters in the US Navy designation system: Swanborough and Bowers 1976, p.127.
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