Colorized photo of four flying Curtiss JN-4 ‘Jennys,’ originally designed and built as training aircrafts for the US Army during WWI, France, 1918. (Photo by Burton Holmes)

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The Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" was one of a series of "JN" biplanes built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Although the Curtiss JN series (the common nickname was derived from "JN") was originally produced as a training aircraft for the Army, the "Jenny" continued post-World War I as a civil aircraft as it became the "backbone of American post-war [civil] aviation." Thousands of surplus Jennys were sold at bargain prices to private owners in the years after the War and became central to the barnstorming era that helped awaken America to civil aviation through much of the 1920s

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Size: 4102px × 2754px
Location: France
Photo credit: © Burton Holmes Historical Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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