Exhibit (21)

Subsidiaries of Registrant

         The information below is provided, as of March 2, 1998, 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                       100%
  Systems Europe A/S

Curtiss-Wright                        Barbados                      100%
  Foreign Sales Corp