Early homebuilt Curtis Pusher Replica

This Curtiss-type pusher was built and flown by 17 year old Howard S. Bunce of Berlin, CT. Obsessed with the desire to fly, Bunce would go wherever he could find a Curtiss pusher airplane, make sketches, then go home and make parts until he had assembled an airplane. He could not afford a Curtiss engine but used a 4-cylinder air-cooled engine constructed by Nels J. Nelson of New Britain, CT. Bunce made several attempts to fly his airplane, but according to his brother none were really successful.

Photo curtis, New England Air Museum, 2001

1912 Curtiss Pusher replica

Photo 568, Pearson Field & Jack Murdock Air Museum, Vancouver WA, Sept 2006