Curtiss R-6

June 3, 2022
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Curtiss R-6


Information:

Coast Guard aviators flew the R-6 during World War I, during flight training and operationally in the European Theatre.


Photographs:

http://uscgaviationhistory.aoptero.org/history01/Curtiss_R_6.jpg
No caption/date/photo number; photographer unknown.


Sources:

Aircraft History File, U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office.

Gordon Swanborough & Peter M. Bowers.  United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1990-third edition), pp. 164-165.

Arthur Pearcy, U.S. Coast Guard Aircraft Since 1916 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1991), pp. 158-159.