Exhibit 21 Subsidiaries of the Registrant The information below is provided, as of March 28, 2003, 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 or Subsidiary of Parent Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc. Delaware 100% Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Corporation New York 100% Metal Improvement Company, Inc. Delaware 100% Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Delaware 100% Service Corporation Curtiss-Wright Antriebstechnik GmbH Switzerland 100% Curtiss-Wright Foreign Sales Corp. Barbados 100% Peerless Instrument, Inc. New York 100% Vista Controls, Inc. California 100% Electro-Mechanical Corporation Delaware 100%