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Curtiss C-6

Aircraft engine

Field	Value
name	C-6
image	Curtiss C-6 Aircraft engine at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum (4283419288).jpg
caption	C-6 engine on display at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum
engine_type	Inline six cylinder aircraft engine.
manufacturer	Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
national_origin	United States of America
developed_from	Curtiss K6 / K12

The Curtiss C-6 is a six-cylinder, water-cooled, inline aircraft engine.

Design and development

The C-6 features an overhead cam and aluminum cylinder jackets. Further development as a V-12 engine was carried out resulting in the C-12 and CD-12 engines.

Variants

;6-cylinder water-cooled in-line engine

Applications

Curtiss Lark
Curtiss Oriole
Curtiss MF Seagull
Laird C-6 Special
Pitcairn PA-1 Fleetwing
Pitcairn PA-2 Sesquiwing
Travel Air 2000
Waco 9
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.3

Engines on display

The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington has a Curtiss C-6A on display.
The Canada Aviation and Space Museum has a Curtiss C-6A mounted on its Curtiss MF Seagull.

Specifications (C-6)

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160 hp at 1,250 rpm
161 hp at 1,760 rpm |power/weight=0.38 hp/lb

References

"Joe Gertler's Memaerolbilia".
"Curtiss Seagull".
(1 November 1923). "Curtiss Night Mail Plane". Flight.
Glenn Dale Angle. (1921). "Airplane engine encyclopedia: an alphabetically arranged compilation of all". Dayton, O., Otterbein Press.

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