Curtiss Robin

The Curtiss Robin was an American high-wing cabin monoplane introduced in 1928 and built by the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company. It had a wooden wing and a steel tube fuselage, and its enclosed cabin seated three, with two passengers side by side behind the pilot. Early aircraft carried large flat fairings over the wing bracing struts, which were dropped on later versions, and the original bungee rubber shock absorbers were later replaced by oleo-pneumatic ones. Engines ranged from 90 to 185 horsepower across many variants, from the OX-5 powered Robin B to the Challenger powered Robin C and the Wright Whirlwind powered J-1. Besides private owners it served as a mail and newspaper carrier, as an airline aircraft in Cuba and as a transport in the Paraguayan Air Force during the Chaco War. A Robin J-1 flown by Wrong Way Corrigan crossed the Atlantic in 1938.