The Model 2500 Air Car was a four-place Ground
Effects Machine designed by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. It skimmed
six to twelve inches off the ground, water, swamps, or mud at speeds
up to 35 mph.
The Army Transportation Research Command purchased two of these
machines “off-the-shelf” for research in early 1960. Curtiss-Wright
had developed the Air-Car as a four-passenger commercial vehicle.
