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Historic Gallery: A Neat Tour of the Glenn Curtiss Museum – Historic Engines, Planes, Motorcycles, Cars and More!


Historic Gallery: A Neat Tour of the Glenn Curtiss Museum – Historic Engines, Planes, Motorcycles, Cars and More!

(Photos by Jeremy George) – The Glenn H Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York is a true gearhead’s delight. The large facility is filled with ancient motorcycles, airplanes, old cars, boats, engines a plenty, and even has a restoration shop where volunteers work on stuff like the crashed WWII era P-40 aircraft you can see in the photo below. Jeremy George hit the museum on National Aviation Day, which comes around on August 19th each year. Thankfully he had his camera and blasted a ton of great photos showing the most interesting stuff in the museum.

We’re especially fascinated by the old motorcycles and the old airplane engines. Both of these things appear to be expressly designed to kill anyone near them. Curtiss was a major player in the early motorcycle game and gained major fame with his V8 powered cycles that were the fastest in the world for a short time. Obviously, Curtiss has a long history in airplanes as well. The old engines, many with exposed pushrods and the like make us shake our heads in wonder than anyone survived a flight during the dawn of commercial aviation.

Thanks to Jeremy for the photos!

Hit the link below to see gearhead history at its finest on display at NY’s Glenn H Curtiss Museum!

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3 thoughts on “Historic Gallery: A Neat Tour of the Glenn Curtiss Museum – Historic Engines, Planes, Motorcycles, Cars and More!

  1. Scott Liggett

    As an Air Force brat; I grew up around planes. But, this museum has much more. Very cool. I’m such a sucker for wooden boats. And, that P-40 Warhawk in the lead photo looks like it was found at the bottom of the ocean. Yeesh.

  2. Mustang13 Jeremy George

    It was a true shock to have Cam run up and scream ” Dad! They have a wrecked P40 in the back!!!!!”

    If your ever in the area, and your a gearhead, you owe it to yourself to check this place out.

  3. Mustang13 Jeremy George

    Story on the P40 Scott, is that it was in a low level head on crash with another P40 somewhere in the Florida Everglades around 1946. The two planes were left there to rott, and recovered decades later , and then sold off to several collectors before this one ended up at the Museum. The Craftsmen the give their time at the Museum are very capable wooden aircraft restorers, and admitted this P40 is somewhat out of their wheelhouse.

    I believe this plane was a later version known as a Kittyhawk, like a P40D, instead of the early version Warhawk, or Tomahawk which were used by the RAF and Soviets.

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