{"id":7707514,"date":"2026-07-29T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/curtiss-xf-87-blackhawk-last-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:25:33","slug":"curtiss-xf-87-blackhawk-last-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/curtiss-xf-87-blackhawk-last-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"El avi\u00f3n que mat\u00f3 a Curtiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p>Curtiss was once one of the giants of American aviation. It built the fighters that fought the First World War, the racing seaplanes that set world records in the 1920s, and the P-40 Warhawks whose shark-mouthed noses became a symbol of the Second World War. And then, in October 1948, it stopped building aircraft forever. The machine that broke the company was the Curtiss XF-87 Blackhawk.<\/p>\r\n<p>It was big, it was heavy, it was underpowered &mdash; and losing one contract was enough to end forty years of history.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;border-radius:8px;margin:24px 0\"><h3 style=\"margin-top:0;padding-top:0\">Datos r\u00e1pidos<\/h3><ul style=\"margin:0;line-height:1.9\">\r\n<li><strong>Fabricante:<\/strong> Corporaci\u00f3n Curtiss-Wright<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Primer vuelo:<\/strong> 5 March 1948, at Muroc Dry Lake<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Role:<\/strong> all-weather \/ night fighter-interceptor prototype<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Motores:<\/strong> four Westinghouse J34 turbojets, paired in two underwing pods<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Multitud:<\/strong> 2 (pilot and radar operator, side by side)<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Construido:<\/strong> one flown (a second airframe was scrapped unfinished)<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Beaten by:<\/strong> the Northrop F-89 Scorpion; contract cancelled 10 October 1948<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Significado:<\/strong> the last aircraft Curtiss ever designed and built<\/li>\r\n<\/ul><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A giant in decline<\/h2>\r\n<p>By the late 1940s, the once-mighty Curtiss was running on fumes. Project after project had failed, and the company, as one historian put it, seemed to have run out of fresh ideas. The XF-87 was its big bet on the future: a large, four-jet, all-weather night fighter to replace the wartime P-61 Black Widow and guard America&rsquo;s skies in the new jet age.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=199149415  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/curtiss-xf-87-b.jpg\" alt=\"The Curtiss XF-87 Blackhawk\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The sole flying Curtiss XF-87 Blackhawk, its four jet engines slung in two underwing pods. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Four-Jet Fighter, Weighing as Much As B-17, Tested.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Associated Press<\/strong> &mdash; Headline, San Bernardino Daily Sun, 2 March 1948<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>On paper it was imposing &mdash; a two-seat interceptor as heavy as a B-17 bomber. In the air it was a disappointment. Its four Westinghouse J34 engines simply could not haul its bulk fast enough; it fell well short of its promised top speed and buffeted at high speed. It flew for the first time in March 1948, and by then its fate was already being decided elsewhere.<\/p><h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The contract that killed a company<\/h2>\r\n<p>The U.S. Air Force initially ordered the type &mdash; then thought better of it. The rival Northrop F-89 Scorpion looked more promising, and in October 1948 the Air Force cancelled the Blackhawk. For a healthy manufacturer that would have been a setback. For Curtiss-Wright, teetering after years of decline, it was fatal.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;It was also the last aircraft to be produced by the Curtiss company, marking an ignominious end for a corporation which had been a household name in the annals of American aviation for so many years.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Joe Baugher<\/strong> &mdash; Aviation historian, joebaugher.com<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=259466788  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/curtiss-p-40-warhawk.jpg\" alt=\"A Curtiss P-40 Warhawk\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Glory days: the P-40 Warhawk was Curtiss at its wartime peak &mdash; a reminder of how far the company had fallen by 1948. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>The company shut down its aeroplane division and sold its assets to North American Aviation, ending roughly four decades of aircraft design that stretched back to the earliest days of flight. Both XF-87 prototypes were scrapped. The final irony came soon after: the old Curtiss plant in Columbus, Ohio, reopened under its new owner to build the sleek, successful <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/aeronave\/f-86-sabre\/\">F-86 Sabre<\/a> &mdash; exactly the kind of winner Curtiss itself could no longer produce.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Blackhawk is barely remembered today. But it marks a genuine ending: the last time the name Curtiss, one of the oldest in aviation, ever appeared on a new aircraft.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vGzxtGlZ5Q8\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TVC-okTRRDQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">Sources: Wikipedia; Joe Baugher, \"USAF Fighters\"; contemporary press reports.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\">\r\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Publicaciones relacionadas<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/avro-cf-100-canuck-clunk-interceptor\/\">El Clunk: El perro guardi\u00e1n de la Guerra Fr\u00eda de Canad\u00e1<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtiss was once one of the giants of American aviation. It built the fighters that fought the First World War, the racing seaplanes that set world records in the 1920s, and the P-40 Warhawks whose shark-mouthed noses became a symbol of the Second World War. And then, in October 1948, it stopped building aircraft forever. 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