The Curtiss JN biplane—invariably known as the Jenny—was the most widely flown U.S. Army training aircraft in World War I. It also was flown in large numbers by U.S. Navy and Marine Corps pilots and by Canadian airmen during and after the war.
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1. Thomas also helped to design the Thomas Moore S-4 Scout aircraft, a single-seat advanced trainer flown by the U.S. Army and Navy; the latter aircraft, configured both as landplanes and floatplanes, were designated S-5.
2. The suffix letter “H” indicated the 150-horsepower Wright Hispano engine.
3. Details of the various JN configurations are in Peter M. Bowers, Curtiss Aircraft 1907–1947 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1979), 143–68.
4. Frequent exchanges of aircraft orders between the Army and Navy still make some production numbers questionable.
