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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 98101

Curtiss XF9C-1 fighter
(Bureau # 8731)

Photographed on 27 April 1931, probably at Naval Air Station Anacostia, D.C.
This experimental airplane was then undergoing flight tests for possible use on board aircraft carriers. It was later converted for operation with airships.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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8 October 2002