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type	Racing aircraft |manufacturer = Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company |designer = |first flight = 18 September 1925 |introduction = 1925 |retired = |status = |primary user = US Navy |more users = US Army |produced = |number built = 3 |unit cost = |developed from = Curtiss R2C |variants with their own articles =

The Curtiss R3C is an American racing aircraft built in landplane and floatplane form. It was a single-seat biplane built by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.The R3C-1Also given the “paper” designation F3C as fighters in the US Navy designation system: Swanborough and Bowers 1976, p.127. was the landplane version and Cyrus Bettis won the Pulitzer Trophy Race in one on 12 October 1925 with a speed of {{convert|248.9|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}.The R3C-2 was a twin float seaplane built for the Schneider Trophy race. In 1925, it took place at Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore, Maryland. With {{convert|232.57|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}, pilot Jimmy Doolittle won the trophy with a Curtiss R3C-2. The other two R3C-2s, piloted by George Cuddihy and Ralph Oftsie, did not reach the finish line. The next day, with the same plane on a straight course, Doolittle reached {{convert|245.7|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}, a new world record. For the next Schneider Trophy, which took place on 13 November 1926, the R3C-2’s engine was further improved, and pilot Christian Franck Schilt took second place with {{convert|231.364|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}.

Operators

File:Curtiss R3C-2 A6979 3 USAFM 22.04.74 edited-3.jpg|thumb|right|The surviving R3C-2 is displayed at the NASM near Washington]]

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• United States Navy - two examples
• United States Army Air Service - one example

Survivors

The R3C-2 that Jimmy Doolitle piloted to victory in the 1925 Schneider Trophy race is preserved at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Centre, at Washington Dulles Airport, Virginia. It still wears its ‘3’ 1925 racing number.

Specifications (R3C-2)

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