The Curtiss-Wright Aeroplane Factory, located at 130 Banshee Road in Hazelwood, unincorporated St. Louis County, Missouri, is an industrial complex designed and built in 1940-41, with an annex in 1944, comprised of managerial, engineering, and manufacturing functions built to serve American and Allied Forces military aviation during World War II.
The complex is historically significant in association with important industrial events in the development of air power for military purposes during World War II. Curtiss-Wright not only mass- produced reliable and powerful aircraft which undoubtedly helped the Allied forces win the war, the company evolved from founders associated with the origins of manned flight in addition to the transportation of airmail at a time when flight was experimental and communication options were letters carried by land or sea. Curtiss Wright had been instrumental in aviation employment during the Great Depression, and had been a national leader in providing air power during both World Wars as well as being responsible for new scientific and engineering research activities associated with the period before, during, and after the war. The administrative and manufacturing buildings appear much as they appeared after placed in service and operated between 1941 and 1946 and the feeling within each space clearly inspires the complexes’ historical association to aircraft production. There are no other buildings of similar historical magnitude with this level of integrity either locally or statewide associated with Curtiss-Wright; the buildings are also of the last (and potentially the final) designed by Kahn prior to his death. This building has been entered into the National Register Of Historical Places, received National Park Service Certification on Sept 6, 2016
