page_title: Curtiss Fledgling
section_title: Variants
hierarchical_section_title: Curtiss Fledgling / Variants
caption_attribution_description: A U.S. Navy Curtiss N2C-2 Fledgling converted into a target drone at the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), 1938/39. Note that the aircraft has been fitted with a tricycle landing gear.
context_page_description: The Curtiss Fledgling, known internally to Curtiss as the Model 48 and Model 51 was a trainer aircraft developed for the United States Navy in the late 1920s and known in that service as the N2C.
context_section_description: Model 48
  XN2C-1
  Navy prototypes (3 built)
  N2C-1
  Navy version powered by Wright J-5 Whirlwind (31 built)
  N2C-2
  Navy version powered by Wright J-6-7 Whirlwind (20 built)
  Model 51
  Fledgling
  commercial version with Curtiss Challenger engine (109 built)
  J-1
  commercial version with Wright J-6-5 Whirlwind engine (four converted)
  J-2
  commercial version with Wright J-6-7 Whirlwind engine built to N2C-2 standard (two converted)
  Fledgling Junior
  reduced wingspan version (one built)
  Fledgling Guardsman
  convertible civil-military challenger powered versions.
  A-3
  designation assigned by the United States Army Air Corp USAAC for use of the Fledgling as a radio-controlled target aircraft
caption: An N2C-2 target drone, in 1938/39.
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