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DEVELOPMENT

DATABASE CURTISS P-36/HAWK 75 It was hardly revolutionary, but the Curtiss Model 75 was America’s first truly modern fighter to appear in the mid-1930s The P-36 was the first truly modern fighter for the US Army Air Corps. A typical pre-war P-36A is represented by serial 38-038, on the strength of the 1st Pursuit Group at Selfridge Field, Michigan. AVIATION HISTORY COLLECTION/ALAMY The first prototype of the Model 75, registration X17Y, took to the air from the Curtiss factory airfield