Sterling Burgress 1900's WWI Curtiss N-9 Navy Floatplane Antique Wooden Wood Airplane Propeller

Sterling Burgress

Vintage Wooden Airplane Propeller
ANTIQUE| 1900'S ERA | OFF A CURTISS NAVY N-9 FLOATPLANE | VERY RARE

PROPELLER IS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME !! A MASSIVE STATEMENT PIECE FROM WORLD WAR 1

MATERIALS / Laminated Wood / Leading edges 

STAMPINGS / 2. | 8'x5' | 9E.  995-199 | T.I. | "NAVY ANCHOR SYMBOL" | 1. | 852

MANUFACTURER / Burgess Company

PROPELLER/  This propeller is incredible! A World War 1 Propeller.  A true piece of aviation history. Some pieces missing from wood laminations (see photos).


This model of propeller was used on the Curtiss N-9 Floatplane.   
This propeller is being sold for display only. Perfect for your home, office, restaurant, bar, hangar, dorm room, garage, etc.

MEASUREMENTS/ Total length of propeller 8 Feet.  Widest part of blade is 11 1/2 inches. Weighs approximately 40 lbs.

 

History of Burgress Company

The business was incorporated in 1910 as the "Burgess Company and Curtis, Inc." (after W. Starling Burgess and Greely S. Curtis, its co-founders with Frank H. Russell). The company was an offshoot of the W. Starling Burgess Shipyard, of Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Burgess was the first licensed aircraft manufacturer in the United States. On February 1, 1911, it received a license to build Wright aircraft from the Wright Brothers, who held several key aeronautical patents. Burgess was charged licensing fees of $1000 per aircraft and $100 per exhibition flight. In 1912 Burgess fitted some of its Wright Model F airplanes with pontoons, contrary to the Wright Company's licensing provisions, which permitted only exact copies of their designs. The license agreement was terminated by mutual consent in January 1914.

In the same month, January 1914, the organization became the Burgess Company, a name change to avoid confusion with the Curtiss Aeroplane and Engine Company. Greely S. Curtis continued as Treasurer and its major shareholder. Burgess designed and flight tested most of the aircraft that were manufactured at the two plant sites in Marblehead. Curtis was the company's financial and engineering adviser and Russell, formerly the manager of the Wright Company's Dayton factory, managed their production operations. The Burgess Company was acquired on February 10, 1914 by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. The Burgess Company then operated as a manufacturing subsidiary producing Curtiss's naval training aircraft in late 1916 and continued to produce these aircraft under the Burgess name during World War I until its main production facility was totally destroyed by fire on November 8, 1918.

The company provided seaplanes and other aircraft to the military. The first tractor configuration airplane purchased by the U.S. Army was a Burgess H (S.C. No. 9) in August 1912. In September 1913, a Burgess Model F seaplane based on a modified Wright Model B design with pontoons, was delivered to the Signal Corps for use in the Philippines to maintain a flying school. The same aircraft (S.C. No. 17) in December 1914 was the first in the Army to demonstrate two-way air-to-ground radio communications.

The company manufactured a number of models for the U.S. military, including an extensive production run of the Curtiss N-9 under contract for its parent company in 1916, building 681 for the Navy. 




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