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
General information
TypeAirliner/utility transport
ManufacturerCurtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Designer
T.P. Wright
StatusRetired
Number built13
History
First flight1929
Developed intoCurtiss 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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