Curtiss Thrush

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
Manufacturer Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Designer T.P. Wright
First flight 1929
Status Retired
Number built 13
Developed into Curtiss Kingbird

The Curtiss/Curtiss-Robertson Model 56 Thrush 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 and built as an enlargement of the earlier Curtiss Robin. 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.

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