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Description
| Manufacturer: | Douglas |
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| Base model: | SBD | ||
| Designation: | SBD | ||
| Version: | -1 | ||
| Nickname: | Dauntless | ||
| Designation System: | U.S. Navy / Marines | ||
| Designation Period: | 1934-1946 | ||
| Basic role: | Scout Bomber | ||
| Crew: | Pilot and observer/rear gunner | ||
Specifications
| Length: | 32' 1" | 9.7 m | |
| Height: | 13' 7" | 4.1 m | |
| Wingspan: | 41' 6" | 12.6 m | |
| Wingarea: | 325.0 sq ft | 30.0 sq m | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 1 | ||
| Powerplant: | Wright R-1820-32 | ||
| Horsepower (each): | 1000 | ||
Performance
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park | Mobile | Alabama |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Ron Hampton San Diego, CA | I am a volunteer on the USS Midway CV-41 which is now a museum and tied up in downtown SD. I work with the Air Wing Group at NAS North Island and curently on the SBD-1 listed above. It is coming along fine but will still take a lot of work. The air intake on the top of the cowling is for the carb but not the oil cooler which has its intake on the bottom of the cowling. The carb intake became smaller on newer models of the SBD. It's great fun working on Naval Aircraft again after 50 years. 03/01/2007 @ 20:42 [ref: 15719] |
| Lee Franklin Helena, AL | That side number was fished out of lake michigan apparently early 2005 and is under restoration in San Diego for the Midway Museum.
According to the USS Alabama website they have an SBD-3 with the side number of 06583. Hope the museum there can open again soon so my father in law can get another look at the kind of plane he used to fly. Another Katrina casualty was the USS Alabama park. 11/29/2005 @ 03:22 [ref: 11830] |
| David Hanson , CA | This SBD-1 (BuNo 1612) is no longer at the USS Alabama Museum, and has been re-assigned by the National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola to the USS Midway aircraft carrier museum in San Diego, CA. It is currently undergoing restoration at their hangar at NAS North Island. It is planned that it will be restored in its original pre-war 1940 USMC markings. After having spent 50+ years on the bottom of Lake Michigan, this particular airframe is in need of a lot of work. Still, it is hoped to have the aircraft ready for display in 2007. Progress can be checked at http://www.midwayshangar.org 10/13/2005 @ 19:17 [ref: 11470] |
| KAF , WI | Just an FYI; Photo below is not a -1, but probably a -5 (or -6). The -1 was unique in having a rather prominent oil cooling scoop on top of the engine cowl. The scoop was toned down in the -2 through -4 series and done away with in the -5 and -6. 09/21/2001 @ 17:37 [ref: 3233] |
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