From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Curtiss-Wright Airplane Company, Robertson, Missouri
• Three-place open biplane. Wright Whirlwind 540-E engine, 175 horsepower. ATC 463.
Span 28 feet 10 inches. Length overall 21 feet 1 inch. Height overall 8 feet 10 inches. Wing area 206 square feet.
Power loading 12.3 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 10.4 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight 1360 pounds. Useful load 790 pounds. Gross weight 2150 pounds. Fuel capacity 33 gallons. Oil capacity 4 gallons.
Maximum speed 135 miles per hour. Cruising speed 115 miles per hour. Landing speed 48 miles per hour. Service ceiling 17,500 feet. Rate of climb 1100 feet per minute. Cruising range 350 miles.
Fuselage: fabric covered; chrome molybdenum welded structure; rigid diagonal bracing; fittings and attaching brackets welded integral with structure; tandem seating arrangement, two side-by-side in front; dual controls and instruments in both cockpits; baggage compartment aft of rear cockpit with door opening on outside of fuselage; detachable engine mount of welded steel tubing. Wings: fabric covered; spars and ribs of spruce; top center section carried above fuselage by steel tube struts; one set of N-type interplane struts on either side of fuselage; ailerons on top wing only. Tail group: fabric covered; beams and ribs steel; stabilizer adjustable in flight; fin adjustable on ground; braced by six steel tie rods, two on either side of fin, one on either side of stabilizer. Fixed split-axle type landing gear equipped with air wheels, internally expanding brakes, oleo shock absorbers; top ends anchored to bottom fuselage longerons, bottom ends hinged by half axles to steel tube Vee under fuselage, and by radius rods to centerline of underside of fuselage.
Standard equipment includes Eclipse starter, metal propeller, wiring for navigation lights, front cockpit cover, tail wheel.
Instruments: tachometer, altimeter, oil temperature gauge, oil pressure gauge, Pioneer air speed indicator, compass, fuel gauge.