1929 American single-engine monoplane light transport
Model 56 Thrush/Thrush J
Thrush J "Outdoor Girl" setting a record of 237 hours 42 minutes aloft (nearly 10 days) in 1933
Role
Airliner/utility transport
Type of aircraft
Manufacturer
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Designer
T.P. Wright[1][2]
First flight
1929[1]
Status
Retired
Number built
13[3][4]
Developed into
Curtiss Kingbird
The Curtiss/Curtiss-Robertson Model 56 Thrush[note 1] was a 1929 six passenger high-wing fixed undercarriage single-engine cabin monoplane airliner and utility transport powered by either a Curtiss Challenger or a Wright Whirlwind radial engine[1] and built as an enlargement of the earlier Curtiss Robin.[2] Several were used for record breaking endurance flights by female pilots during the early 1930s including one in which the aircraft stayed aloft for almost ten days.
^ abcAerofiles.com Curtiss K through Z, 2009
^ abJuptner, 1964, p.169
^Bowers, 1979, p.390
^Juptner, 1966, p.178
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