The SBD (Scout Bomber Douglas) Dauntless was derived from the Northrop BT-2 design of 1935. After Northrop became a subsidiary of Douglas, the aircraft was rebranded under the Douglas designation.

Deliveries of the SBD-2 to VS-2 and VB-2 on board the USS Lexington began in November 1940, with USS Enterprises's VS-6 and VB-6 following shortly. The initial two models of the Dauntless would see ...

The first Dauntless, a modified XBT-2, was test-flown on April 22, 1938. Just a year later, Douglas received an order for fifty-seven SDB-1 and then eighty-seven SBD-2 aircraft.

On the Allied side, there was the Soviet Union’s Petlyakov Pe-2 “ Peshka,” Great Britain’s Blackburn B-24 Skua, and America’s Douglas SBD Dauntless and Curtiss SB2C Helldiver.

Discover how CAF Airbase Georgia's Douglas SBD Dauntless was mistaken for a lost Army A-24 and how pilot Keith Wood uncovered its true Navy origins.

SBD-2P 2173 arrived at the Air Zoo on July 1 st, 2016 amidst much fanfare and media attention. It arrived at the front of the Air Zoo’s Flight Innovation Center to a crowd of all generations ...

Use the controls at the bottom of the frame to navigate, zoom in and out, or view full-screen. The Douglas Dauntless dive bomber sank more enemy ships than any other Allied bomber ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – The Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach recently acquired a Douglas SBD Dauntless which was one of the most successful dive bombers in World War 2.

Meanwhile, hard on O’Hare’s heels in Lexington lore was a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless team whose activities seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers.

The SBD-5 was the most produced variant of the Dauntless and served throughout the battles of 1943. The last version of the Dauntless, the SBD-6 featured a larger engine, which raised top speed to 262 ...