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The F6F-5 was the first aircraft used by the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels official flight demonstration team at its formation in 1946. [60] A F6F-5K Hellcat target drone is shot down by the heavy cruiser USS Saint Paul, in 1954. The French Naval Aviation was equipped with F6F-5 Hellcats and used them in combat in Indochina.
The R-2800 also powered the Corsair's naval rival, the Grumman F6F Hellcat, the US Army Air Forces' Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (which unusually, for single-engined aircraft, used a General Electric turbocharger), the twin-engine Martin B-26 Marauder and Douglas A-26 Invader, as well as the first purpose-built twin-engine radar-equipped night ...
VF-1 F6F-3 launches from the hangar deck catapult of USS Yorktown in June 1943 VF-1 F6F-3 aboard USS Yorktown, June 1944. VF-1 operating the Grumman F6F Hellcat was embarked on the USS Yorktown (CV-10) on its shakedown cruise in the Caribbean in June 1943. VF-1 was transferred to Kaneohe Naval Air Station in August 1943. [2]
Alex Vraciu's most famous Grumman Hellcat, an F6F-3, survived the war and now flies with The Fighter Collection in the UK. It was restored using parts from multiple aircraft (taking on the serial number of an F6F-5K for convenience according to TFC) and painted in the markings it wore when serving with VF-6.
McCampbell entered combat on May 14 [2] and flew at least four Grumman F6F Hellcats while aboard the Essex: an F6F-3 named Monsoon Maiden (damaged by AA, removed from service on 20 May 1944), an F6F-3 named The Minsi (10 + 1 ⁄ 2 kills), an F6F-5 named Minsi II, and an F6F-5 named Minsi III (Bureau Number 70143), in which he scored the last 23 ...
File: Burning Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of VF-2 aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) on 10 November 1943 (80-G-205473).jpg
He was the first Hellcat ace, first USN carrier-based double ace, [2] [3] and the first Grumman F6F Hellcat pilot to achieve double ace status. [4] [5] He flew 89 combat missions during World War II while flying with the VF-9 and VF-12 units. [5]
This influenced the development of the Hellcat which was an improvement over the Grumman F4F Wildcat. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Duncan, then an Ensign, [ 1 ] scored his first and second aerial victories in the Hellcat on 5 October 1943, the second being Japanese flying ace Warrant Officer Toshiyuki Sueda, who previously had downed nine American aircraft ...