The Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk is a light interwar biplane designed to be carried as a parasite fighter by the United States Navy airships USS Akron and Macon. This was the first operational use of the concept in the US, for the short time both airships were in commission (before their loss in 1933 and 1935). This was a fairly small series, with only 8 manufactured given the first Akron could only carry 3 at any given time, Macon 5. That number also included the two prototypes XF9-C1 and C2 prototypes. Their tactical role evolved from local defensive asset to reconnaissance asset for a US battle group. They would remain the only US fighters provided with a skyhook in order to dock to an airship while in flight. The very last was still flying in 1939. However nowadays these are forgotten, just as the airships that operated them. A complement piece to the Akron class airship
The Polikarpov I15 were kmown by the Nationalist forces in Spain as “Curtiss” be cause of the gull wings both airplanes had.
The I15 and I15bis that served in the Spanish Air Force until the 50s were kmown as Curtiss,not Chatos or Polikarpov. A lasting tribute to a rather unknown plane