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                                                                    Exhibit (21)

Subsidiaries of Registrant

     The  information  below is provided,  as of March 14, 1997, with respect to
the subsidiaries of Registrant.  The names of certain inactive  subsidiaries and
other consolidated subsidiaries of Registrant have been omitted because all such
subsidiaries,  considered  in the  aggregate as a single  subsidiary,  would not
constitute a significant subsidiary.
                                                          Percentage of Voting
                            Organized Under               Securities Owned by
Name                        the Laws of                   Immediate Parent

Curtiss-Wright Flight         Delaware                            100
  Systems, Inc.

Metal Improvement             Delaware                            100
  Company, Inc.

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control   New York                            100
  Corporation

Curtiss-Wright Flight         Denmark                              80
  Systems Europe A/S