{"id":21918,"date":"2026-08-22T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/?page_id=21918"},"modified":"2026-08-22T21:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:34:40","slug":"curtiss-p-6-hawk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/cn\/aircraft\/curtiss-p-6-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtiss P-6 Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mfam\">\n<style> html{overflow-x:hidden} body.page-id-21918 h1.entry-title.main_title{display:none} body.page-id-21918 #sidebar{display:none} body.page-id-21918 #left-area{width:100%!important;float:none;padding:0} body.page-id-21918 #main-content .container::before{display:none!important;background:none!important} body.page-id-21918 #main-content .container{padding-top:0} #mfam{width:100vw;margin-left:calc(50% - 50vw);overflow:hidden;font-family:'Gilroy regular',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;background:#fff;line-height:1.65;font-size:17px} #mfam *{box-sizing:border-box} #mfam 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.sources{columns:2;column-gap:34px;margin-top:6px} #mfam .sources .src{break-inside:avoid;margin:0 0 16px;font-size:14.5px;color:#39424e} #mfam .sources .src b{font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';display:block;color:#0d1117} #mfam .foot{font-size:13px;color:#8794a6;margin-top:26px;border-top:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding-top:18px;max-width:820px} @media(max-width:900px){#mfam .eng,#mfam .rec,#mfam .relgrid{grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr}#mfam .spectbls{grid-template-columns:1fr;gap:22px}#mfam .gallery{grid-template-columns:repeat(2,1fr)}#mfam .hero h1{font-size:42px}#mfam .sources{columns:1}} @media(max-width:600px){#mfam .eng,#mfam .rec,#mfam .relgrid{grid-template-columns:1fr}#mfam .hero h1{font-size:34px}#mfam .hero{min-height:74vh}#mfam h2{font-size:25px}#mfam .scard{flex:0 0 84vw}} <\/style>\n<section class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"hero-inner\">\n<div class=\"brd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/\">Book of Beasts<\/a> &nbsp;\/&nbsp; Interwar Biplane Fighters &nbsp;\/&nbsp; Curtiss P-6 Hawk<\/div>\n<h1>Curtiss P-6 Hawk<\/h1>\n<p class=\"claim\">The US Army Air Corps&rsquo; premier biplane fighter of the early 1930s &mdash; and, in its elegant P-6E form with the &ldquo;Snowy Owl&rdquo; markings, one of the most beautiful American aircraft ever built.<\/p>\n<div class=\"statstrip\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1927<\/b><span>First flight (Hawk line)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>~46<\/b><span>P-6E built<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>~198<\/b><span>mph top speed<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>V-12<\/b><span>Curtiss Conqueror engine<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Role:<\/b> Single-seat biplane pursuit fighter<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Era:<\/b> late 1920s to mid-1930s<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Engine:<\/b> Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror V-12<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Origin:<\/b> United States<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Status:<\/b> Retired &middot; preserved<\/span><a class=\"chip-fly\" href=\"#faq\">Can you fly a Curtiss P-6 Hawk today?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">The Story<\/p>\n<h2>The Curtiss P-6 Hawk: the beautiful hawk of the Air Corps<\/h2>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>The Curtiss P-6 Hawk is one of the best-loved aircraft in American aviation history, and it earned that affection almost entirely on the ground and in the air-show circuit rather than in combat. The premier pursuit fighter of the United States Army Air Corps in the early 1930s, and especially in its definitive P-6E version, it is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful aircraft the United States ever built &mdash; a sleek, elegant biplane whose gorgeous squadron paint schemes have made it a perennial favourite of modellers, artists and restorers. It was a fine fighter for its brief moment, but it is remembered above all for its looks and its charm.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawk was the culmination of a long Curtiss line. Through the 1920s the Curtiss company had built a celebrated family of &ldquo;Hawk&rdquo; pursuit biplanes for the Army and Navy, evolving from the PW-8 through the P-1 series and on to the P-6. Each was a refinement of the last, and by the time the P-6 appeared at the end of the decade, Curtiss had accumulated deep experience in building fast, agile pursuit biplanes. The P-6 was the peak of that tradition &mdash; the finest expression of the classic American open-cockpit fighter biplane.<\/p>\n<p>Curtiss was, in these years, one of the two giants of American military aviation, and its pursuit biplanes were the products of a company at the height of its powers. The same firm had built the sleek Curtiss racers that won the Schneider Trophy and set speed records in the 1920s, and something of that racing pedigree carried into the Hawks. Speed, clean lines and a powerful in-line engine were Curtiss hallmarks, and the P-6 inherited all three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pull\">&ldquo;One of the most beautiful aircraft America ever built &mdash; the P-6E in its Snowy Owl markings is an icon of the biplane era.&rdquo;<span>&mdash; the P-6 Hawk&rsquo;s place in history, in a sentence<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What set the P-6 apart mechanically was its engine. Where many contemporaries used air-cooled radials, the Hawk was powered by the liquid-cooled Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror, a big, powerful V-12. A liquid-cooled engine allowed a slim, pointed nose, and in the later versions the adoption of Prestone &mdash; ethylene glycol &mdash; coolant permitted a much smaller, neater radiator, giving the aircraft an exceptionally clean and streamlined shape for a biplane. That sleek nose, combined with the trim lines of the airframe, is a large part of why the P-6E looks so good.<\/p>\n<p>The liquid-cooled layout was a deliberate choice with real trade-offs. An in-line engine and its radiator were more vulnerable to battle damage than a rugged air-cooled radial &mdash; a hit to the cooling system could bring the aircraft down &mdash; and they demanded more maintenance. But in exchange they offered lower drag and higher speed, and in the pursuit role, where performance was everything, Curtiss judged the bargain worth making. It was the same reasoning that would later shape famous liquid-cooled fighters such as the Spitfire and the Bf 109.<\/p>\n<p>The definitive version, the P-6E of 1932, is the aircraft most people picture when they think of the Hawk. Refined, tidy and fast for its day, it featured neatly spatted wheels and a single-strut main undercarriage that added to its polished appearance. Only around forty-six P-6Es were built &mdash; a small number even by the standards of the cash-strapped interwar Air Corps &mdash; but those few aircraft made an outsized impression, and they remain the most celebrated American pursuit biplanes of all.<\/p>\n<p>To fly, the P-6E belonged wholly to its era: an open cockpit, a big thundering V-12 ahead of the pilot, wind and noise and the smell of hot oil, and the immediate, responsive handling of a light biplane. Pilots sat high behind the guns with a superb view over the nose, and the aircraft rewarded a skilled hand with crisp aerobatics. It was, by all accounts, a delight to fly &mdash; part of why those who flew it, and those who merely watched it pass overhead, remember it so fondly.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the P-6E&rsquo;s fame rests on its paint. The 17th Pursuit Squadron, part of the 1st Pursuit Group, adorned its P-6Es with a striking &ldquo;Snowy Owl&rdquo; scheme &mdash; an arctic-owl motif with bold markings that made the aircraft unforgettable. These beautifully decorated Hawks, photographed in the clear light of early-1930s America, became some of the most iconic images of the peacetime Air Corps, and they are a large part of why the type is so beloved today. Few aircraft have ever worn their markings so memorably.<\/p>\n<p>As a fighter, the P-6E was genuinely competitive for its era. Its Conqueror engine gave it a good turn of speed &mdash; approaching two hundred miles per hour, respectable for an early-1930s pursuit &mdash; and the agility inherent in the biplane layout made it a fine dogfighter by the standards of the day. Armed with a pair of machine guns firing through the propeller, it was a capable interceptor for the kind of air defence the Army then envisaged. In the peaceful skies of interwar America, it was among the best pursuit aircraft the country had.<\/p>\n<p>But the P-6E arrived at a moment of rapid change, and its front-line career was short. The all-metal monoplane was coming, and coming fast. Within a couple of years the Boeing P-26 Peashooter &mdash; a monoplane, if still an open-cockpit one with fixed gear &mdash; had entered service, and behind it came the far more modern Seversky P-35 and Curtiss&rsquo;s own P-36, with their enclosed cockpits and retractable undercarriages. Against these, the fabric-and-wire P-6E was suddenly a generation out of date. The elegant Hawk was, like so many beautiful biplanes, overtaken almost as soon as it reached its peak.<\/p>\n<p>The transition was not quite as abrupt as hindsight suggests. Through the early 1930s there was genuine debate about whether the monoplane&rsquo;s higher speed was worth the loss of the biplane&rsquo;s agility and short-field performance, and elegant biplanes like the P-6E had real defenders. But the arithmetic of speed, and the promise of the all-metal monoplane, proved decisive, and within a few years the argument was settled for good. The P-6E had the poignant distinction of being close to the best of a kind that was about to vanish.<\/p>\n<p>Production was modest and exports were limited. The P-6E itself was an Army aircraft, built in small numbers, and while Curtiss sold export versions of its broader Hawk family to a number of countries, the P-6E as such saw little foreign service; a small number of Hawks went abroad, including to the Netherlands. This was not an aircraft produced in the thousands or spread across the world&rsquo;s air forces &mdash; it was a small, jewel-like type that served a single air arm, briefly, at the very end of the pursuit-biplane era.<\/p>\n<p>There is an irony worth noting here. While the P-6E itself stayed almost entirely at home, Curtiss&rsquo;s wider Hawk family enjoyed considerable export success: dedicated Hawk export models were sold to air forces across the world, from Latin America to Asia, and some of those saw far more combat abroad than the P-6E ever did in American service. The P-6E was the beautiful domestic flagship of a line whose plainer export cousins travelled much further, and fought much harder.<\/p>\n<p>Nor did the P-6E see significant combat. It served in the peaceful interwar years, and by the time the United States entered the Second World War the type had long since been retired from front-line duty. Its career was one of peacetime patrols, exercises, air races and displays rather than battle &mdash; which makes its enduring fame all the more remarkable. The P-6E is celebrated not for what it did in war, but for what it was: a superbly elegant machine that marked the high point, and the graceful close, of the American fighter biplane.<\/p>\n<p>Today the Hawk lives on through preservation. A genuine P-6E, restored in the glorious Snowy Owl markings of the 17th Pursuit Squadron, is a highlight of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, and the type is a favourite subject for scale modellers and replica builders the world over. For an aircraft built in such small numbers and gone from the front line so quickly, the Curtiss P-6 Hawk has achieved a rare and lasting immortality &mdash; earned, fittingly, by sheer beauty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">01<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Curtiss Hawk lineage: from PW-8 to P-6<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The P-6 was the last and finest of a long line of Curtiss &ldquo;Hawk&rdquo; pursuit biplanes. The family began in the early 1920s with the PW-8, evolved through the successful P-1 Hawk series, and was refined step by step across the decade. Each new model improved on the aerodynamics, structure and engine installation of the one before.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the P-6 appeared at the end of the 1920s, Curtiss had become the pre-eminent American builder of pursuit biplanes, with deep experience in the type. The P-6 represented the peak of that accumulated craft &mdash; the most polished version of a design philosophy Curtiss had been perfecting for years. It was, in a sense, the classic American fighter biplane brought to its highest point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">02<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror engine<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Hawk&rsquo;s defining feature was its powerplant: the liquid-cooled Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror, a large and powerful V-12. At a time when many fighters used air-cooled radial engines, the choice of a liquid-cooled inline gave the P-6 a distinctive character and, crucially, a very different shape.<\/p>\n<p>The Conqueror was one of the more powerful American engines of its day, and it gave the Hawk the performance to be genuinely competitive as a pursuit fighter. Just as importantly, a liquid-cooled V-12 could be faired into a slim, pointed nose, rather than the broad blunt cowling of a radial &mdash; the first ingredient in the P-6E&rsquo;s famously sleek appearance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">03<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Prestone cooling and the sleek pointed nose<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>A key refinement in the later Hawks was the switch to Prestone &mdash; ethylene glycol &mdash; as the engine coolant. Because glycol works at a higher temperature than water, it allowed a much smaller radiator to shed the same heat, which in turn let designers give the aircraft a neater, more streamlined nose and cooling installation.<\/p>\n<p>The visual result was striking. The P-6E&rsquo;s slim, pointed nose, clean cowling and tidy radiator gave it an elegance that few biplanes could match. This was aerodynamic refinement in the service of both speed and beauty: the same features that reduced drag also made the aircraft look fast even standing still. It is one of the reasons the P-6E is so often called the most handsome of the American pursuit biplanes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">04<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The P-6E: the definitive Hawk<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>Of all the Hawk variants, the P-6E of 1932 is the definitive and best-remembered version. It brought together the refinements of the line &mdash; the Conqueror engine, the streamlined nose, and a clean airframe with neatly spatted wheels and a tidy single-strut main undercarriage &mdash; into an exceptionally polished whole.<\/p>\n<p>Only around forty-six P-6Es were built, a small run that reflected the tight budgets of the interwar Army Air Corps. Yet these few aircraft became the most famous American fighter biplanes of all. The P-6E is the aircraft enthusiasts picture when they think of the Hawk, and its combination of elegant design and gorgeous markings has kept it firmly in the affections of aviation lovers ever since.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">05<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The &ldquo;Snowy Owls&rdquo; of the 17th Pursuit Squadron<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The most famous P-6Es of all wore the markings of the 17th Pursuit Squadron, which decorated its Hawks with a spectacular &ldquo;Snowy Owl&rdquo; scheme. The motif drew on the squadron&rsquo;s arctic-owl emblem, and the resulting aircraft &mdash; boldly marked, immaculately turned out &mdash; were among the most beautiful military aircraft of their era.<\/p>\n<p>These decorated Hawks became icons. Photographed in the clear skies of early-1930s America, the Snowy Owl P-6Es captured the romance of the peacetime Air Corps at its most elegant, and they have been reproduced in paintings, models and restorations ever since. For many enthusiasts, the Snowy Owl scheme is inseparable from the P-6E itself &mdash; the markings and the machine remembered as one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">06<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The 1st Pursuit Group and the Air Corps&rsquo; showpiece<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The P-6E equipped units of the 1st Pursuit Group, one of the Army Air Corps&rsquo; premier fighter formations, and the elegant Hawks became something of a showpiece for the peacetime air arm. Beautifully maintained and strikingly painted, they represented the Air Corps at its most polished in an era when military aviation was a source of great public fascination.<\/p>\n<p>In the interwar years, before wartime necessity swept such things aside, air forces took real pride in the appearance of their aircraft, and squadrons competed in the flamboyance of their markings. The P-6E, as the front-line pursuit of a prestige group, was a natural canvas for this, and its role as a peacetime showpiece is a big part of why it left so strong an impression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">07<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Why the P-6E is beloved by modellers and restorers<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>Few aircraft are as cherished by the modelling and restoration communities as the P-6E, and the reasons are easy to see. Its elegant lines make it a rewarding subject to build or restore, and its spectacular squadron markings &mdash; the Snowy Owl scheme above all &mdash; offer a chance to reproduce some of the most beautiful paintwork in aviation history. A well-finished P-6E model or restoration is a genuine showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>The type&rsquo;s modest production and short career, paradoxically, add to its appeal: it is exotic, a little rare, and strongly associated with a romantic, golden age of open-cockpit flying. For enthusiasts drawn to the beauty of the biplane era rather than the grim business of war, the P-6E is close to the ideal subject &mdash; and its popularity in kit form and at air shows keeps its fame very much alive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">08<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Speed and performance for its era<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The P-6E was more than just a pretty aeroplane; it was a genuinely capable fighter for the early 1930s. Its Conqueror V-12 gave it a top speed approaching two hundred miles per hour, which was competitive with the best pursuit aircraft of its day, and the aircraft climbed and manoeuvred well.<\/p>\n<p>The biplane layout, for all that it was about to be superseded, still offered excellent agility, and in a close-in dogfight of the period the Hawk could hold its own. Its performance was well matched to the air-defence role the Army then envisaged &mdash; intercepting intruders and winning the turning fight. It was, briefly, about as good a pursuit biplane as existed anywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">09<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The pursuit role in the interwar Air Corps<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>In the terminology of the day, the P-6 was a &ldquo;pursuit&rdquo; aircraft &mdash; the American term for a fighter &mdash; and its job was air defence: intercepting and destroying enemy aircraft. In the interwar Army Air Corps, pursuit aviation was one of the central missions, and the P-6E was the front-line pursuit type of the early 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>This was, however, a peacetime role in practice. The Air Corps of the era was small and underfunded, and its pursuits spent their time on training, exercises, manoeuvres and the occasional air race rather than combat. The P-6E was the sharp end of American fighter aviation in those quiet years &mdash; a capable interceptor kept in readiness for a war that, in its service life, never came.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">10<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The transition to monoplanes<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The P-6E&rsquo;s front-line reign was brief because it coincided with one of the fastest transitions in fighter history: the shift from the biplane to the all-metal monoplane. Even as the Hawk entered service, the future was arriving. The Boeing P-26 Peashooter &mdash; a monoplane, though still with an open cockpit and fixed landing gear &mdash; reached the Air Corps in the mid-1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Close behind came the truly modern types: the Seversky P-35 and Curtiss&rsquo;s own P-36, with enclosed cockpits, retractable undercarriages and far higher performance. Against these, the fabric-covered, wire-braced P-6E was obsolete almost overnight. The Hawk had the misfortune, shared by many fine biplanes, of reaching perfection just as the rules of the game changed entirely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">11<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Modest production and limited exports<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The P-6E was never a numerous aircraft. Only around forty-six were built, a small run reflecting the tight budgets of the Depression-era Army Air Corps, which could rarely afford large orders of any type. It was a select, front-line fighter for a small air arm rather than a mass-produced workhorse.<\/p>\n<p>Exports of the P-6E specifically were limited, though Curtiss did sell versions of its wider Hawk family abroad to several countries, and a small number of Hawks went to foreign operators including the Netherlands. But the P-6E as such remained overwhelmingly a US Army aircraft. Its fame, clearly, rests on quality and beauty rather than on quantity or wide service &mdash; a reminder that an aircraft&rsquo;s place in history is not measured only in numbers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">12<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Little combat: an honest note<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>It is important to be honest about the P-6E&rsquo;s record: it saw little or no significant combat. It served in the peaceful interwar years and was retired from front-line duty well before the United States entered the Second World War, by which time far more modern fighters had taken over. Its career was one of patrols, exercises, races and displays, not battle.<\/p>\n<p>This does nothing to diminish the aircraft &mdash; but it does shape how it should be remembered. The P-6E is celebrated as a beautiful and capable pursuit biplane of its moment, not as a combat legend. Its importance is aesthetic and historical: it marks the elegant high-water mark of the American fighter biplane, just before the monoplane revolution swept the type away. To claim more for it would be to misrepresent a genuinely lovely, but genuinely short-lived, aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">13<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Survivors and the famous restoration<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>Given how few were built and how long ago it served, it is remarkable that the P-6E survives at all &mdash; but it does. A genuine P-6E, beautifully restored in the Snowy Owl markings of the 17th Pursuit Squadron, is a treasured exhibit at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, letting visitors see this icon of the biplane era in all its glory.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the original, the P-6E lives on in replicas and in countless scale models, its elegant shape and gorgeous markings ensuring it is never forgotten. For a small, short-lived interwar fighter, the Hawk has achieved a rare immortality &mdash; preserved, modelled and admired as one of the most beautiful aircraft the United States ever produced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Design &amp; Engineering<\/p>\n<h2>How the P-6 Hawk was built: elegance in an open-cockpit biplane<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">The Hawk took the classic American pursuit biplane to its peak &mdash; a liquid-cooled V-12, a streamlined pointed nose and beautifully clean lines, at the very end of the biplane era.<\/p>\n<div class=\"eng\">\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"en\">01<\/div>\n<h3>Conqueror V-12 power<\/h3>\n<p>The liquid-cooled Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror gave the Hawk both competitive performance and, unlike a radial, a slim pointed nose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"en\">02<\/div>\n<h3>Streamlined by Prestone<\/h3>\n<p>Glycol coolant allowed a smaller radiator and a neater nose, giving the P-6E its famously clean, elegant lines &mdash; fast-looking even at rest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"en\">03<\/div>\n<h3>The classic pursuit biplane<\/h3>\n<p>An open cockpit, spatted wheels, a single-strut undercarriage and two synchronised guns &mdash; the American fighter biplane at its polished peak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Specifications<\/p>\n<h2>Curtiss P-6E Hawk specifications: dimensions, performance and cost<\/h2>\n<div class=\"spectbls\">\n<table class=\"spec\">\n<caption>Dimensions &amp; powerplant<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Type<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">Single-seat biplane pursuit (fighter)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Crew<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">1 (pilot)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Length<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~7.06 m (23 ft 2 in) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Wingspan<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Height<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Empty weight<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~1,220 kg (~2,700 lb) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Loaded weight<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~1,540 kg (~3,400 lb) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Engine<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">1 &times; Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror V-12, ~600&ndash;700 hp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"spec\">\n<caption>Performance &amp; programme<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Max speed<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~319 km\/h (~198 mph) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Range<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~920 km (~570 miles) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Service ceiling<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~7,500 m (~24,700 ft) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Armament<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">2 &times; machine guns (synchronised, firing through the propeller)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">First flight<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">1927 (Hawk line); P-6E from 1932<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Introduced<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">early 1930s (US Army Air Corps)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Number built<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~46 (P-6E); more across the wider P-6 family<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Main variants<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">P-6, P-6A, P-6E and other Hawk pursuit sub-types<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Operators<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">United States (Army Air Corps); minor Hawk exports incl. the Netherlands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Unit cost<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">not reliably recorded (interwar procurement)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Cost per flight hour<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">not reliably recorded<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">14<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The P-6 family and its variants<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The P-6 designation covered a family of related Hawk pursuit biplanes rather than a single model. Early P-6 and P-6A aircraft led to further sub-variants with detail differences in engine, cooling and equipment, and the line culminated in the definitive P-6E of 1932. Numbers of each were small, in keeping with the tight interwar budgets.<\/p>\n<p>The P-6E is the version that matters most for the type&rsquo;s fame, but it sat within a broader Curtiss Hawk story that also included export models sold abroad under various Hawk designations. For the purposes of this profile, the P-6E &mdash; the elegant, Snowy-Owl-marked Army pursuit &mdash; is the aircraft the world remembers, and the one this page is chiefly about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">15<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Curtiss P-6&rsquo;s cost: what the records show<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>As with almost all interwar military aircraft, there is no reliable, transparent public figure for the P-6E&rsquo;s unit cost, cost per flight hour or total programme cost. It was procured in small batches through US Army contracts during a period of very tight defence budgets, and consistent lifetime cost data for so small and short-lived a type simply does not exist in a usable form.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than repeat an invented number, we list the cost fields here as &ldquo;not reliably recorded.&rdquo; What can be said is that the Depression-era Army Air Corps could afford only small orders of any pursuit type, which is precisely why so few P-6Es &mdash; around forty-six &mdash; were built, however admired the aircraft was.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">16<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The P-6E among interwar fighters<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The P-6E belongs to the last generation of front-line fighter biplanes, alongside contemporaries such as Britain&rsquo;s Hawker Fury and, a little later, types like the Fiat CR.32 and Avia B-534. Like the elegant Fury, the P-6E is remembered as much for its beauty and its polish as for its combat record &mdash; both were peacetime showpieces of their respective air forces.<\/p>\n<p>What all these aircraft share is timing: they represented the pursuit biplane at its finest just as the monoplane was about to render the whole category obsolete. The P-6E is the American entry in that gallery of lovely, doomed biplanes &mdash; arguably the most beautiful of them all, and certainly the most iconic American example.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">17<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Seeing a P-6E today<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The place to see a genuine P-6E is the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Ohio, whose beautifully restored example wears the celebrated Snowy Owl markings of the 17th Pursuit Squadron. It is one of the museum&rsquo;s most admired exhibits, and for many visitors it is the highlight of the interwar collection.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the original, the P-6E is kept alive through replicas and through its enduring popularity as a subject for scale modellers. For an aircraft built in such small numbers and retired so long ago, it is unusually accessible to enthusiasts &mdash; a testament to the affection in which this most elegant of American biplanes is still held.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Timeline<\/p>\n<h2>The Curtiss P-6 Hawk through the years<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">early 1920s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>The Hawk line begins<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Curtiss builds its first pursuit biplanes, the PW-8 and P-1 Hawk, establishing the family that would lead to the P-6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1927<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>The P-6 appears<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Curtiss P-6 emerges as the latest and finest of the Hawk pursuit biplanes, powered by the V-1570 Conqueror.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">late 1920s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Refinement<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Hawk is progressively refined, including the switch to Prestone coolant for a smaller radiator and a cleaner nose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1932<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>The definitive P-6E<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The P-6E enters service &mdash; the sleek, polished version that becomes the most celebrated American pursuit biplane.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">early 1930s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>The Snowy Owls<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The 17th Pursuit Squadron adorns its P-6Es with the famous Snowy Owl markings, creating an enduring icon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">early 1930s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Front-line pursuit<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The P-6E serves as the front-line pursuit fighter of the 1st Pursuit Group, a showpiece of the peacetime Air Corps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1934<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>The monoplane arrives<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Boeing P-26 Peashooter enters service, beginning the shift from biplane to monoplane that will quickly date the Hawk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">mid-1930s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Superseded<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Modern monoplanes such as the Seversky P-35 and Curtiss P-36 render the P-6E obsolete, and it is withdrawn from front-line units.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">late 1930s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Retirement<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The P-6E passes from service, its brief front-line career over well before the Second World War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">today<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Preserved and beloved<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A restored P-6E in Snowy Owl markings is a highlight of the National Museum of the US Air Force, and the type remains a modellers&rsquo; favourite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Stories &amp; Eyewitnesses<\/p>\n<h2>The Curtiss P-6 Hawk in stories: the moments that defined it<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">The peak of the Curtiss Hawk line, a V-12 and a sleek nose, the gorgeous Snowy Owl markings, and a brief front-line reign at the close of the biplane era &mdash; the P-6 Hawk&rsquo;s story through the moments that stuck.<\/p>\n<div class=\"carwrap\">\n<div><button class=\"carbtn\" onclick=\"this.parentElement.parentElement.querySelector('.track').scrollBy({left:-712,behavior:'smooth'})\">&lsaquo;<\/button><button class=\"carbtn\" onclick=\"this.parentElement.parentElement.querySelector('.track').scrollBy({left:712,behavior:'smooth'})\">&rsaquo;<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"track\">\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The Line<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Peak of the Hawks<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The last and finest Curtiss pursuit biplane.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The P-6 was the culmination of the Curtiss Hawk line, from the PW-8 through the P-1 to the P-6 &mdash; the classic American fighter biplane at its peak.<\/p>\n<p>Years of Curtiss experience distilled into one elegant machine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Conqueror<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>A liquid-cooled V-12<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The engine that shaped the Hawk.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The liquid-cooled Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror gave the P-6 competitive performance and a slim, pointed nose no radial could match.<\/p>\n<p>Power and elegance in one installation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Sleek Nose<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Streamlined by Prestone<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Glycol coolant, smaller radiator.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>Switching to Prestone coolant allowed a smaller radiator and a neater nose, giving the P-6E its famously clean lines.<\/p>\n<p>Aerodynamic refinement that also made it beautiful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">P-6E<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The definitive Hawk<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The version everyone pictures.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The 1932 P-6E, with spatted wheels and a tidy undercarriage, was the polished peak of the line &mdash; and the most famous American pursuit biplane.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 46 were built, but they made an outsized mark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Snowy Owls<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The famous markings<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The 17th Pursuit Squadron scheme.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The 17th Pursuit Squadron adorned its P-6Es with a spectacular arctic Snowy Owl scheme &mdash; among the most beautiful markings in aviation.<\/p>\n<p>Machine and markings are remembered as one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Showpiece<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The 1st Pursuit Group<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">A polished peacetime showpiece.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>Flying with the 1st Pursuit Group, the immaculate P-6Es were a showpiece of the peacetime Air Corps in an age fascinated by aviation.<\/p>\n<p>Squadrons took real pride in their flamboyant markings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Beloved<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>A modeller&rsquo;s dream<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Cherished by restorers and modellers.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>Its elegant lines and gorgeous markings make the P-6E a favourite of scale modellers and restorers the world over.<\/p>\n<p>Rare, exotic and beautiful &mdash; the ideal biplane-era subject.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Fast Enough<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Competitive for its day<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Nearly 200 mph and agile.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The Conqueror gave the P-6E a top speed approaching 200 mph, competitive with the best pursuits of the early 1930s, with fine agility.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly, about as good a pursuit biplane as existed anywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Pursuit<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Air Corps&rsquo; fighter<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Front-line pursuit, in peacetime.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>As a &ldquo;pursuit&rdquo; &mdash; the American word for a fighter &mdash; the P-6E was the front-line interceptor of the early-1930s Air Corps.<\/p>\n<p>Its work was training, exercises and air races, not war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Overtaken<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The monoplane arrives<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The P-26 and P-36 dated it fast.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The Boeing P-26 monoplane, then the modern P-35 and P-36, quickly rendered the fabric-and-wire P-6E obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>Perfection reached just as the rules changed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Few &amp; Far<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Modest numbers<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Small production, limited exports.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>Only around 46 P-6Es were built, and exports of the type were limited, though Hawk-family variants went to several nations, including the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Fame earned by quality and beauty, not quantity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Honest<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Little combat<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">A peacetime, not a wartime, legend.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The P-6E saw little or no significant combat, serving in the quiet interwar years and retiring before the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>It is remembered for beauty and grace, not battle &mdash; and rightly so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Preserved<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Snowy Owl survives<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">A restored P-6E lives on.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>A genuine P-6E, restored in Snowy Owl markings, is a highlight of the National Museum of the US Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>A rare immortality for a small, short-lived, lovely fighter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Photo Gallery<\/p>\n<h2>The Curtiss P-6 Hawk in photographs<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">Museum, archival and restored-aircraft photographs of the P-6 Hawk, each credited to its source and licence. Click any photo to enlarge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\" id=\"p6hawk-gallery\">\n<figure class=\"gfig tall\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-17th-pursuit-squadron-snowy-owl.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Curtiss P-6E Hawk (32-261) of the 17th Pursuit Squadron in the famous &lsquo;Snowy Owl&rsquo; markings. Photo: US Air Force, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.\"><img data-opt-id=798655140  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1055\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-17th-pursuit-squadron-snowy-owl.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201055%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221055%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221055%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Curtiss P-6E Hawk of the 17th Pursuit Squadron in Snowy Owl markings. Photo: US Air Force, public domain.\"><figcaption>A Curtiss P-6E Hawk (32-261) of the 17th Pursuit Squadron in the famous &lsquo;Snowy Owl&rsquo; markings. Photo: US Air Force, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-usaac-service.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Curtiss P-6E Hawk in US Army Air Corps service &mdash; the premier American pursuit biplane of the early 1930s. Photo: US Air Force, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.\"><img data-opt-id=1091896409  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1055\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-usaac-service.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201055%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221055%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221055%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Curtiss P-6E Hawk in US Army Air Corps service. Photo: US Air Force, public domain.\"><figcaption>A Curtiss P-6E Hawk in US Army Air Corps service &mdash; the premier American pursuit biplane of the early 1930s. Photo: US Air Force, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-1b-hawk-17th-aero-squadron-predecessor.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Curtiss P-1B Hawk of the 17th Aero Squadron &mdash; an earlier member of the Curtiss Hawk line that led to the P-6. Photo: US Air Force, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.\"><img data-opt-id=1285730438  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1024\/h:605\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-1b-hawk-17th-aero-squadron-predecessor.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201024%20605%22%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22605%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221024%22%20height%3D%22605%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Curtiss P-1B Hawk of the 17th Aero Squadron, a predecessor in the Curtiss Hawk line. Photo: US Air Force, public domain.\"><figcaption>A Curtiss P-1B Hawk of the 17th Aero Squadron &mdash; an earlier member of the Curtiss Hawk line that led to the P-6. Photo: US Air Force, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig wide\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-national-museum-usaf-dayton.jpg\" data-cap=\"The restored Curtiss P-6E Hawk at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio. Photo: Roland Turner \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).\"><img data-opt-id=423488706  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:710\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-national-museum-usaf-dayton.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%20710%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22710%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22710%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Restored Curtiss P-6E Hawk at the National Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton. Photo: Roland Turner \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).\"><figcaption>The restored Curtiss P-6E Hawk at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio. Photo: Roland Turner \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-cockpit.jpg\" data-cap=\"The open cockpit of a Curtiss P-6E Hawk. Photo: US Air Force, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.\"><img data-opt-id=61277153  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1015\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-cockpit.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201015%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221015%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221015%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Open cockpit of a Curtiss P-6E Hawk. Photo: US Air Force, public domain.\"><figcaption>The open cockpit of a Curtiss P-6E Hawk. Photo: US Air Force, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-snowy-owl-sleek-nose.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Curtiss P-6E Hawk preserved in Snowy Owl markings, showing its sleek pointed nose and clean lines. Photo: Yinan Chen, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.\"><img data-opt-id=2127281216  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1024\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-snowy-owl-sleek-nose.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201024%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Curtiss P-6E Hawk in Snowy Owl markings, showing its sleek pointed nose. Photo: Yinan Chen, public domain.\"><figcaption>A Curtiss P-6E Hawk preserved in Snowy Owl markings, showing its sleek pointed nose and clean lines. Photo: Yinan Chen, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-flying-scale-replica.jpg\" data-cap=\"A flying scale replica of the Curtiss P-6E Hawk (registration N90DS). Photo: Alan Wilson \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).\"><img data-opt-id=1146698339  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1024\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-flying-scale-replica.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201024%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Flying scale replica of the Curtiss P-6E Hawk (N90DS). Photo: Alan Wilson \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).\"><figcaption>A flying scale replica of the Curtiss P-6E Hawk (registration N90DS). Photo: Alan Wilson \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-arctic-owl-scheme.jpg\" data-cap=\"A preserved Curtiss P-6E Hawk in its arctic-owl squadron scheme. Photo: US Air Force, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.\"><img data-opt-id=1932069140  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1024\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curtiss-p-6e-hawk-arctic-owl-scheme.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201024%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Preserved Curtiss P-6E Hawk in its arctic-owl squadron scheme. Photo: US Air Force, public domain.\"><figcaption>A preserved Curtiss P-6E Hawk in its arctic-owl squadron scheme. Photo: US Air Force, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"p6hawk-lb\" id=\"p6hawk-lightbox\"><button class=\"p6hawk-lb-close\">&times;<\/button><button class=\"p6hawk-lb-prev\">&lsaquo;<\/button><button class=\"p6hawk-lb-next\">&rsaquo;<\/button><img alt=\"Curtiss P-6 Hawk enlarged photo\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"p6hawk-lb-cap\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">On Film<\/p>\n<h2>The Curtiss P-6 Hawk on video: the elegant pursuit biplane<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">A look at the Curtiss P-6 Hawk &mdash; the Curtiss Hawk line, the sleek P-6E and the famous markings that made it an icon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vid\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h8pRBqYk6xE\" title=\"Curtiss P-6 Hawk video\" loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"vcap\">&ldquo;Curtiss P-6E Hawk&rdquo; by the Academy of Model Aeronautics (approx. 9,800 views at time of writing; running time ~5 minutes) &mdash; a short feature on the elegant Curtiss P-6E Hawk pursuit biplane.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.cloudflare.com\/ajax\/libs\/d3\/7.8.5\/d3.min.js\"><\/script> <script src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.cloudflare.com\/ajax\/libs\/topojson\/3.0.2\/topojson.min.js\"><\/script> <script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jsdelivr.net\/npm\/d3-geo-projection@4\/dist\/d3-geo-projection.min.js\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Operations Overview<\/p>\n<h2>Where the Curtiss P-6 Hawk flew: an operator map<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">Designed, built and flown chiefly by the United States. The P-6E was overwhelmingly a US Army aircraft; only a small number of Hawks went abroad, including to the Netherlands. This is therefore a small map. Hover or tap a country for detail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"maphold\">\n<div id=\"p6hawk-map-widget\">\n<div id=\"p6hawk-map-container\" style=\"width:100%;position:relative\"><svg id=\"p6hawk-map-svg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\"><\/svg><\/p>\n<div id=\"p6hawk-tooltip\" style=\"position:fixed;background:#1a1a2e;color:#fff;padding:10px 16px;font-size:13px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.3px;pointer-events:auto;opacity:0;transition:opacity .15s;z-index:100000;max-width:360px;line-height:1.5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"p6hawk-controls\" style=\"display:flex;gap:8px;flex-wrap:wrap;justify-content:flex-start;margin-top:12px\"><button class=\"p6hawk-toggle active\" data-cat=\"origin\" data-full=\"Design, Manufacture &amp; US Army Air Corps\" data-short=\"USA\" style=\"display:flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:8px 12px;border:2px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a2e;white-space:nowrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:14px;height:14px;flex-shrink:0;background:#5C91FF\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"p6hawk-label\">Design, Manufacture &amp; US Army Air Corps<\/span><span class=\"p6hawk-check\" style=\"font-size:10px;opacity:1\">&#10003;<\/span><\/button><button class=\"p6hawk-toggle active\" data-cat=\"exp\" data-full=\"Minor Export (Hawk family)\" data-short=\"Export\" style=\"display:flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:8px 12px;border:2px solid #555;border-radius:0;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a2e;white-space:nowrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:14px;height:14px;flex-shrink:0;background:#555\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"p6hawk-label\">Minor Export<\/span><span class=\"p6hawk-check\" style=\"font-size:10px;opacity:1\">&#10003;<\/span><\/button><button class=\"p6hawk-toggle active\" data-cat=\"surv\" data-full=\"Surviving Airframes (USA)\" data-short=\"Survivors\" style=\"display:flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:8px 12px;border:2px solid #C0C0C0;border-radius:0;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a2e;white-space:nowrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:14px;height:14px;flex-shrink:0;background:#C0C0C0\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"p6hawk-label\">Surviving Airframes<\/span><span class=\"p6hawk-check\" style=\"font-size:10px;opacity:1\">&#10003;<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<div id=\"p6hawk-count\" style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;color:#666;margin-top:12px;line-height:1.7;width:100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"vcap\" style=\"margin-top:14px\">Categories: <b style=\"color:#5C91FF\">Design, Manufacture &amp; US Army Air Corps<\/b> (United States) &middot; <b>Minor Export<\/b> (the Netherlands, which received a small number of Curtiss Hawks) &middot; <b>Surviving Airframes<\/b> (United States). The P-6E was overwhelmingly a US Army type; foreign use was minor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Service Record<\/p>\n<h2>The P-6E&rsquo;s record: beauty over numbers<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">The P-6E&rsquo;s significance lies not in production totals or combat victories but in its elegance and its place at the graceful close of the American pursuit-biplane era.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rec\">\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>~46<\/b><span>P-6E aircraft built<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>1st<\/b><span>Pursuit Group front-line fighter<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>~198<\/b><span>mph &mdash; competitive for its day<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>1<\/b><span>Restored survivor at the USAF Museum<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\" id=\"faq\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Questions &amp; Answers<\/p>\n<h2>Curtiss P-6 Hawk: your questions answered<\/h2>\n<div class=\"qa\">\n<details open>\n<summary>Can I fly in a Curtiss P-6 Hawk?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>No &mdash; there is no bookable P-6 Hawk flight experience, and MiGFlug does not offer one. Only around forty-six P-6Es were built, the type retired in the 1930s, and the rare survivor is a museum aircraft. If what you actually want is the real thing &mdash; strapping into a genuine military aircraft and flying it &mdash; you very much <strong>can<\/strong> do that today in other types. MiGFlug arranges flights in real fighter jets and warbirds around the world. Start here: <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">migflug.com\/flights-prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why is the Curtiss P-6 Hawk historically important?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>The P-6 Hawk was the premier pursuit fighter of the US Army Air Corps in the early 1930s and the finest of the long Curtiss Hawk line of pursuit biplanes. Its definitive P-6E version is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful American aircraft ever built, and it marks the elegant high point &mdash; and the close &mdash; of the American fighter-biplane era, just before the monoplane took over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is the P-6 Hawk the same as the P-40 or the P-36 Hawk?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>No &mdash; they are quite different aircraft. The Curtiss P-6 Hawk is an early-1930s biplane pursuit fighter. The Curtiss P-36 Hawk and the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk are much later, all-metal monoplane fighters of the late 1930s and the Second World War. They share the Curtiss name and the &ldquo;Hawk&rdquo; branding, but the P-6 is a separate, earlier, biplane design and should not be confused with those wartime monoplanes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What made the P-6E so beautiful?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>Several things. Its liquid-cooled Curtiss Conqueror V-12 allowed a slim, pointed nose rather than the blunt cowling of a radial engine, and the switch to Prestone coolant let designers use a smaller radiator for an even cleaner shape. Add neatly spatted wheels, a tidy single-strut undercarriage and elegant overall proportions &mdash; and then the spectacular &ldquo;Snowy Owl&rdquo; squadron markings &mdash; and you have one of the most handsome aircraft of its age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Did the P-6 Hawk see combat?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>Little or none of significance. The P-6E served in the peaceful interwar years and was retired from front-line duty well before the United States entered the Second World War. Its career was spent on patrols, training, exercises, manoeuvres and air races rather than in battle. It is remembered as a beautiful and capable peacetime pursuit fighter, not as a combat aircraft &mdash; and it is only honest to say so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How many P-6 Hawks were built, and do any survive?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>Only around forty-six of the definitive P-6E were built, with more across the wider P-6 family &mdash; small numbers reflecting the tight budgets of the Depression-era Army Air Corps. Remarkably, a genuine P-6E survives, beautifully restored in the Snowy Owl markings of the 17th Pursuit Squadron, and is displayed at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The type also lives on in replicas and countless scale models.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Who operated the P-6 Hawk?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>The P-6E was overwhelmingly a United States Army Air Corps aircraft. Curtiss did sell export versions of its wider Hawk family to a number of countries, and a small number of Hawks went abroad, including to the Netherlands, but the P-6E as such saw little foreign service. It was essentially a US front-line pursuit fighter of the early 1930s, built and flown in modest numbers at home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Was the Curtiss P-6 Hawk a good aircraft?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>For its brief moment, yes &mdash; it was a genuinely competitive pursuit fighter, fast for the early 1930s, agile, and well liked. But its significance is really aesthetic and historical rather than martial: it was built in small numbers, saw little combat, and was quickly overtaken by the monoplane. Judged as the elegant high point of the American fighter biplane, though, the P-6E is a triumph &mdash; arguably the most beautiful of them all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> <script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Can I fly in a Curtiss P-6 Hawk?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"No - there is no bookable P-6 Hawk flight experience, and MiGFlug does not offer one. Only around forty-six P-6Es were built, the type retired in the 1930s, and the rare survivor is a museum aircraft. If what you want is the real thing - strapping into a genuine military aircraft and flying it - you very much can do that today in other types. MiGFlug arranges flights in real fighter jets and warbirds around the world. 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MiGFlug does not operate Curtiss P-6 Hawk flights &mdash; no bookable example exists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Related Aircraft<\/p>\n<h2>If the Curtiss P-6 Hawk interests you, explore these<\/h2>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/boeing-p-26-peashooter\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Interwar &middot; Monoplane Successor<\/span><span class=\"rt\">Boeing P-26 Peashooter<\/span><span class=\"rd\">The US Army monoplane that succeeded the Hawk &mdash; the aircraft that began the shift from biplane to monoplane pursuit.<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-fury\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Interwar &middot; Biplane Fighter<\/span><span class=\"rt\">Hawker Fury<\/span><span class=\"rd\">Britain&rsquo;s elegant interwar biplane fighter &mdash; like the P-6E, a beautiful peacetime showpiece of the pursuit-biplane era.<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/avia-b-534\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Interwar &middot; Biplane Fighter<\/span><span class=\"rt\">Avia B-534<\/span><span class=\"rd\">Czechoslovakia&rsquo;s celebrated biplane fighter &mdash; another fine end-of-the-line biplane from the twilight of the type.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Sources &amp; Further Reading<\/p>\n<h2>Where this Curtiss P-6 Hawk history comes from<\/h2>\n<div class=\"sources\">\n<div class=\"src\"><b>National Museum of the United States Air Force<\/b>Home to the restored P-6E in Snowy Owl markings, and reference material on the type.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>US Army Air Corps histories<\/b>Accounts of the P-6E&rsquo;s service with the 1st Pursuit Group and the interwar pursuit mission.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Curtiss company histories<\/b>References on the Hawk line, from the PW-8 and P-1 through to the P-6.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror engine references<\/b>Background on the liquid-cooled V-12 that powered the Hawk and shaped its appearance.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Interwar aviation reference works<\/b>Standard published references on the P-6E&rsquo;s specifications, variants and production numbers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Histories of US pursuit aviation<\/b>Accounts of the transition from biplane to monoplane fighters in the 1930s.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Aircraft-markings &amp; livery studies<\/b>References on the 17th Pursuit Squadron Snowy Owl scheme and interwar squadron markings.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Smithsonian National Air &amp; Space Museum<\/b>Background on Curtiss aircraft and interwar American military aviation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Scale-modelling &amp; restoration references<\/b>Material reflecting the P-6E&rsquo;s enduring popularity with modellers and restorers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Wikimedia Commons<\/b>Source of the public-domain and licensed P-6 Hawk photographs used in the gallery, each credited to its author and licence.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Aviation-history periodicals<\/b>Specialist articles on the Curtiss Hawk family and the P-6E.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>MiGFlug Afterburner magazine<\/b>MiGFlug&rsquo;s own aviation-history features on interwar and classic aircraft.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"foot\">Note on figures: dimensions, performance and production numbers for the P-6 Hawk vary between sources and by variant, and are hedged here as approximate; the figures given are for the definitive P-6E. Cost fields are listed as not reliably recorded because trustworthy interwar procurement cost data is not available. The P-6E saw little or no significant combat and served only briefly in the front line; its fame rests on its elegance rather than a war record, and this profile is careful not to overstate its numbers or its service. The Curtiss P-6 Hawk is a distinct, earlier aircraft from the later Curtiss P-36 Hawk and P-40 Warhawk monoplanes. A restored P-6E survives at the National Museum of the US Air Force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"p6hawk-map-data\" 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