09/30/2011. In 1916 Curtiss made an attempt at reviving US Army interest in the landplane pusher configuration with the Pusher R. Combining early
Model R wings and tail with a pod, containing tandem cockpits and an 150 hp Curtiss V-X pusher engine, and new vertical tail surfaces, a pusher in the 1914-1915 European style was created.

Photographs indicate that the 1916 model originally had equal-span wings with interplane ailerons and that the upper wing was then extended and incorporated the ailerons. While performance reportedly matched that of the contemporary R-models, there was no official support for the Pusher R (site files).

Confusingly, this model also appears in Curtiss records as a second
Model G, which also had been applied to the first Curtiss tractor model delivered to the Army in 1913.