Curtiss SB2C Helldiver

Curtiss SB2C Helldiver adalah sebuah pesawat pembom tukik yang berbasis kapal induk yang diproduksi untuk Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat pada Perang Dunia II. Pesawat tersebut menggantikan Douglas SBD Dauntless dalam pelayanan Angkatan Laut AS. SB2C lebih cepat ketimbang SBD yang ia gantikan.

SB2C Helldiver A-25 Shrike
Jenis	Dive bomber
Negara asal	Amerika Serikat
Pembuat	Curtiss-Wright Fairchild (Kanada) (SBF) Canadian Car & Foundry (SBW)
Perancang	Don R. Berlin
Penerbangan perdana	18 Desember 1940
Diperkenalkan	Desember 1942
Dipensiunkan	1959 (Angkatan Udara Italia)
Pengguna utama	Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat Pasukan Udara Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat Angkatan Udara Prancis Angkatan Udara Kerajaan Thai
Dibuat	1943–1945
Jumlah	7,140
Dikembangkan menjadi	Curtiss XSB3C

Referensi

Daftar pustaka

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• Bowers, Peter M. Curtiss Aircraft 1907-1947. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1979. ISBN 0-370-10029-8.
• Brown, Eric, CBE, DCS, AFC, RN., William Green and Gordon Swanborough. "Curtiss Helldiver". Wings of the Navy, Flying Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War Two. London: Jane's Publishing Company, 1980, pp. 90–99. ISBN 0-7106-0002-X.
• Crosnier, Alain and Jean-Pierre Dubois. Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless & Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver: Bombardiers en piqué de l’Aéronautique Navale (in French). Clichy-la-Garenne, France: DTU sarl., 1998. ISBN 2-912749-01-8.
• Donald, David, ed. American Warplanes of World War II. London: Aerospace Publishing, 1995. ISBN 1-874023-72-7.
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• Smith, Peter C. SB2C Helldiver. Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK: The Crowood Press Ltd., 1998. ISBN 1-86126-710-X.
• Stern, Robert. SB2C Helldiver in Action, Aircraft Number 54. Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications inc., 1982. ISBN 0-89747-128-8.
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• Tillman, Barrett. Helldiver Units of World War 2. London: Osprey Publishing, 1997. ISBN 1-85532-689-2.
• Tillman, Barrett and Robert L. Lawson. U.S. Navy Dive and Torpedo Bombers of WWII. St. Paul, Minnesota: Motor Books Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-7603-0959-0.
• Winchester, Jim. "Curtiss SB2C Helldiver." Aircraft of World War II: The Aviation Factfile. Kent, UK: Grange Books plc, 2004. ISBN 1-84013-639-1.

Pranala luar

• "I Ride 'The Beast'." by J. Runyan, Popular Science, February 1945
• The Commemorative Air Force's flying SB2C Helldiver Diarsipkan 2004-04-02 di Wayback Machine.
• WW2DB: SB2C Helldiver
• ENS Bob Barnes: Helldivers of the Big E
• "The Greek Civil War, 1944-1949"
• Flight 1943 article
• Interior and exterior spherical panoramas of Commemorative AF flying museum