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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950117-08-000578
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20080506
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers
FILED AS OF DATE:		20080506
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20080506

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CURTISS WRIGHT CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000026324
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MISC INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT [3590]
		IRS NUMBER:				130612970
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-00134
		FILM NUMBER:		08806392

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		4 BECKER FARM ROAD
		STREET 2:		3RD FLOOR
		CITY:			ROSELAND
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07068
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9735974700

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		4 BECKER FARM ROAD
		STREET 2:		3RD FLOOR
		CITY:			ROSELAND
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07068
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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><b><font SIZE=3>UNITED STATES</font></b></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><b><font SIZE=3>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></b></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><b><font SIZE=2>WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549</font></b></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=2>_____________________</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><b><font SIZE=5>FORM 8-K</font></b></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=4>&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><b><font SIZE=3>CURRENT REPORT</font></b></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><b><font size=2>Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934</font></b></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=2>Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 6, 2008</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><b><font size=5>Curtiss-Wright Corporation</font></b></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=2>(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>


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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>1-134</font></b><b></b></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>13-0612970</font></b><b></b></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>(State or other Jurisdiction</font><br> <font size=2>of Incorporation)</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>(Commission File Number)</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>(I.R.S. Employer</font><br> <font size=2>Identification No.)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>


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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>4 Becker Farm Road<br>Roseland, NJ</font></b><b></b></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>07068<br></font></b></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>(Zip Code)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>


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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Registrant's telephone number, including area code:</font><b><font size=2>  (973) 597-4752</font></b></p> </td> </tr></table>

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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2></font></b><br> <font size=2>(Former name or former address, if changed from last report)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions: </font></p>

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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>

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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>

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 <table border="0" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='border-collapse:collapse'>  <tr>  <td valign=top nowrap colspan="2">  <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>Item 5.02   Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2><font face="Arial">On May 2, 2008, Admiral (Ret.) James B. Busey IV retired from the Board of Directors of the Company upon the expiration of his then current term on the Board of Directors. </font></font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2><font face="Arial">Mr. Busey retired as a result of reaching the Company&#146;s mandatory retirement age, and not due to any disagreement with the Company or concerns relating to the Company&#146;s operations, policies or practices. </font></font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2><font face="Arial">On May 6, 2008, the Company's Board of Directors also elected Mr. Glenn Coleman, 40, to the office of Vice President and Corporate Controller of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, and announced that, Mr. Coleman&#146;s predecessor, Mr. Kevin McClurg, accepted the position of Vice President of Finance for the Company&#146;s Flow Control Segment.   </font></font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2><font face="Arial">Prior to his appointment to Vice President and Corporate Controller, Mr. Coleman</font></font><font size=2> </font><font size=2><font face="Arial">spent the past 10 years with Alcatel Lucent (formerly Lucent Technologies) in various positions of increasing responsibility, including most recently as VP Finance of the Wireless Business Group.  Prior to that, he served in various roles within Lucent Technologies, such as VP Finance and Americas Controller, Audit Vice President and Finance Director/Shared Services.  Before Lucent, Glenn worked for 8 years with the accounting firm Coopers and Lybrand, L.L.P, where he started his career after graduation.</font></font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2><font face="Arial">Mr. Coleman holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration from Montclair State University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New Jersey. </font></font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2><font face="Arial">Mr. McClurg indicated that his decision to accept the position as Vice President of Finance is based solely on personal reasons, and not due to any disagreement with the Company or concerns relating to the Company&#146;s operations, policies or practices.</font></font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2><font face="Arial">There are no transactions, or series of similar transactions, or any currently proposed transactions, or series of similar transactions, to which the Company was or is to be a party, in which the amount involved exceeds $120,000, and in which Mr. Coleman had, or will have, a direct or indirect material interest.</font></font></p>

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</font></p><p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p><p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p> <br> <HR noshade align="center" width="100%" size="2"> <p style='page-break-before:always'></p> <PAGE> <p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p> <p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p> <p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><b><font SIZE=2>SIGNATURE</font></b></p> <p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p> <p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:0.5in;text-align:left;'><font size=2>Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the   registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</font></p> <p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0
pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p> <table border="0" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='border-collapse:collapse'>    <tr >         <td width="50%" valign=top >             <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p>         </td>         <td width="50%" valign=top >             <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>Curtiss-Wright Corporation</font></b></p>   	    <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>(Registrant)</font></p>         </td>      </tr>  </table>  <p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>  <table border="0" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='border-collapse:collapse'>      <tr >         <td width="50%" valign=top >             <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin
- -top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Date: May 6, 2008</font></p> </td>         <td width="4%" valign=top >             <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>By:</font></p> </td>         <td width="45%" valign=top >             <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><u><font size=2>/s/ Glenn E. Tynan</font></u><u></u></p> </td> </tr>     <tr style='height:2.9pt'>         <td width="50%" valign=top style=' height:2.9pt'>             <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td>         <td width="4%" valign=top style=' height:2.9pt'>             <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td>         <td width="45%" valign=top style=' height:2.9pt'>             <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-t
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