The Museum's Curtiss Model D Pusher is a replica constructed to commemorate the centenary of the flight. It was acquired in 2012.
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Curtiss Model D
Pusher
The 1911 Curtiss Model D was among the very first aircraft in the world to be built in any quantity — all of which were produced by Curtiss during an era of trial-and-error development and equally important parallel technical development in internal combustion engine technologies. It also made the first takeoff from the deck of a ship (flown by Eugene B. Ely off the deck of the USS Birmingham on November 14, 1910, near Hampton Roads, Virginia) and made the first landing aboard a ship (the USS Pennsylvania) on January 18, 1911, near San Francisco, California.