I have passed underneath this Curtis Jenny hundreds of times, but I never fail to take note of it. Surprisingly, for one reason or another, I apparently never took a photograph of it until just the other day, even though I have photographed another biplane that's hanging from the ceiling at the Denver International Airport.
Jennies were surprisingly large, as this photo demonstrated. Obsolescent at the time of hteir introduction, they none the less formed the backbone of the early American military airborne fleet and saw service in the Border War, as it came to be known to the Army, which of course wasn't a full war but threatened to become one.
After World War One JN-4s were sold off and they became a common barn stormer aircraft. There are a surprisingly large number of them left around today, a few of which still fly on rare occasion.
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