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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Curtiss 34/P-1/P-2/P-3/P-4/P-5/AT-4/AT-5/F6C Hawk / 35/64/F11/BFC Goshawk / F7C Seahawk / F9C Sparrowhawk
    Latest Model:P-1 Hawk
    Construction Number:1 {1}
    Last Civil Registration:N982V
    Compressed ID:Curtiss P-1 cn 1 cr N982V
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-1.
    Originally built by Curtiss as a Hawk I export demonstrator with a Curtiss D-12 liquid-cooled engine, it was converted to a Hawk 1A with a Wright Cyclone air-cooled radial engine

    From 1930 to 1936

    To Al Williams with new c/r N982V (HAWK 1A, 1).

    Circa 1932


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels

    Circa 1934


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels

    To Frank Tallman, Tallmantz Movieland of the Air Museum keeping c/r N982V.

    To Wings and Wheels Museum, Moncks Corner, SC.
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    To Smithsonian-National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.
    Stored at the Paul Garber Restoration Facility.
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    10 June 1991


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Paul Garber Restoration Facility

    Based at Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
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    12 April 2012


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: This is a one-of-kind aircraft, flown by Al WIlliams from 1929 to 1936. This modified Hawk traded the Curtiss D-12 engine for a Pratt and Whitney Wasp R-1340, 600 hp radial. This beauty exemplifies the elegance that was the Golden Age of Aviation.

    15 May 2018


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Noah Rechtin
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