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Summary: Curtiss Hawk 75A aircraft Airplane blueprint for the Curtiss, Hawk, 75A ... Aviation history and aircraft blueprints/plans. France was the main buyer of Hawk 75: despite the high price tag, it was the right machine to offset the delays of the French armament industries on the eve of World War II. All variants together, the Hawk 75A would be the most numerous fighter available in May 1940 except for the Ms-406. They performed well during the Campaign in the West, downing more than 300 German planes for 30 of them lost.
After the armistice, the surviving Hawk 75A were regrouped in North Africa and served the Vichy regime. In November of 1942, they confronted the American landing in Marocco and 15 of them went lost in combats against the Wildcat.
The Germans recovered planes still in their crates in 1940. They assembled them and delivered them to the Finns along with the Hawk 75A-6 taken from the Norwegians. They fought against the Russians from 1941 until 1944 and some remained in service until 1948.
Outside the main versions of the Hawk 75A, some minor series were built and exported. Ten aimed for Persia (today's Iran) were captured by the British during the invasion of the country in August of 1941 and used afterwards as Mohawk IV. The same fate met the few delivered to India, while some other went to China.
Built by The Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division (Aircraft) a division of The Curtiss-Wright Corporation
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