Exhibit 99.1


               Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer
       Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings


I, Martin R. Benante, state and attest that:


     (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports
     of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, and, except as corrected or supplemented in
     a subsequent covered report:

          o    no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
               fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
               the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials,
               as of the date on which it was filed); and

          o    no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to
               make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
               circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
               the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
               report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date
               on which it was filed).

     (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit
     committee.

     (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
     before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

          o    Annual Report on Form 10-K of Curtiss-Wright Corporation for
               Fiscal Year Ended 2001 filed with the Commission on March 18,
               2002;

          o    all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all
               definitive proxy materials of Curtiss-Wright Corporation filed
               with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K
               identified above; and

          o    any amendments to any of the foregoing.


/s/ Martin R. Benante                                Subscribed and sworn to
---------------------------                          before me this 14th day of
Martin R. Benante                                    August 2002.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
August 14, 2002                                      /s/ Barbara Raia
                                                     --------------------
                                                     Notary Public

                                                     My Commission Expires:
                                                     January 12, 2004