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{{Infobox aircraft
|name = Falcon
|image = File:Curtiss A-3 Falcon (SN 27-243).jpg
|caption = Curtiss A-3 Falcon. This was the first A-3 aircraft, later converted to O-1B.
|type = Observation, Attack
|manufacturer = [[Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company]]
|designer =
|first_flight =
|introduction = [[1925 in aviation|1925]]
|retired = October 1937
|produced = 
|number_built = 338 USAAC<ref name="ohnine"/><br />150 USN/USMC
|status = 
|unit cost =
|primary_user = [[United States Army Air Corps]]
|more_users = [[United States Navy]]<br />[[United States Marine Corps]]
|developed_from = 
|variants = 
}}

The '''Curtiss Falcon''' was a family of military [[biplane]] aircraft built by the American aircraft manufacturer [[Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company]] during the 1920s. Most saw service as part of the [[United States Army Air Corps]] as observation aircraft with the designations '''O-1''' and '''O-11''', or as the attack aircraft designated the '''A-3 Falcon'''.

[[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] variants were used initially as fighter-bombers with the designation '''F8C Falcon''', then as the first [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marine Corps]] [[dive bomber]]s with the name '''Helldiver'''. Two later generations of Curtiss dive-bombers were also named [[Curtiss Helldiver (disambiguation)|Helldiver]]<!--intentional link to DAB page-->.

The type was introduced in 1925 and saw first-line service in the United States until 1934. Curtiss Falcons fought in the [[Constitutionalist Revolution]] of 1932 in [[Brazil]], used by the forces of [[São Paulo]].