After the successful deployment of the JN-3, Curtiss produced a development, known as the JN-4, with orders from both the US Army and an order in December 1916 from the Royal Flying …

Mar 19, 2025 · Members of the 321st Observation Squadron at Pearson Field pose in front of a Curtiss JN-4 in the late 1920s. The Curtiss JN-4 Jenny is synonymous with the "barn storming" …

The Curtiss Jenny stands alone as the United States’ most iconic World War I (WWI) training aircraft. Primarily a flight trainer, some Jennies had machine guns and bomb racks mounted …

One of the most famous of all aircraft is the Curtiss JN-4D, popularly known as the Jenny. More than ninety percent of American pilots trained during the First World War received their …

While production of the N model continued, the J Model was dropped in favor of the JN or Jenny. In spite of its docile appearance, the Jenny was the first American airplane to be used in war.

The famous JN-series of Curtiss aircraft made one of the largest impacts on the growth of aviation in the history of heavier-than-air flight. Built in the thousands, the Jenny brought...

Curtiss combined the best qualities of both planes in the JN, which soon acquired the nickname "Jenny." After evaluation by the Army and Navy, a small number were ordered in 1915.

The JN-4 was America's most famous World War One airplane. During the war it was the main training plane of the Air Service. In 1917 and 1918, the JN-4 was used extensively on Long …

The term “Jenny” originated as a logical corruption of the model designation JN, followed by an open number 4 (Ϥ) being read as a “Y” and leading to the name JNY, or Jenny.

The plane designed to fill this need was the Curtiss JN-4 biplane. The JN-4 was an improved version of the earlier JN-2 which Glenn Curtiss first built in 1916. It was powered by the newly …