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Naval fighter: Grumman: First carrier aircraft with retractable landing gear. The FF-1 was Grumman's first complete aircraft design for the US Navy. Considered highly successful and setting a standard for Grumman Aircraft. [89] 1931 1933 85 F11C Goshawk: Carrier-based fighter and fighter-bomber Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Grumman F4F Wildcat - Fighter; Grumman F6F Hellcat - Fighter/night fighter; Grumman JRF Goose - Amphibian transport; Grumman TBF Avenger - Torpedo bomber; Lockheed JO-2 - Transport; Lockheed R5O Lodestar - Transport; Lockheed PV-1 Ventura - Patrol bomber; Martin JM Marauder - Attack/medium bomber/target tug; North American PBJ Mitchell - Attack ...
The Grumman F6F Hellcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft of World War II. Designed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat and to counter the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero , it was the United States Navy 's dominant fighter in the second half of the Pacific War .
The Grumman F7F Tigercat is a heavy fighter aircraft that served with the United States Navy (USN) and United States Marine Corps (USMC) from late in World War II until 1954. It was the first twin-engine fighter to be deployed by the USN. While the Tigercat was delivered too late to see combat in World War II, it did serve in reconnaissance roles.
The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a 20th century American producer of military and civilian aircraft. [2] Founded on December 6, 1929, by Leroy Grumman and his business partners, it merged in 1994 with Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman .
The Grumman F4F Wildcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft used by the United States Navy, and the British Royal Navy during World War II. Surviving Wildcats are preserved in museums and some are flying Warbirds. [1] [2]
The United States manufactured 12,275 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter planes in one three-year span during the conflict. The Hellcat was a crucial asset in the Pacific Theater, accounting for 75% of ...
A new version, the F4F-4, entered service in 1941 with six machine guns and the Grumman-patented Sto-Wing folding wing system, [47] [48] which allowed more aircraft to be stored on an aircraft carrier, increasing the number of fighters that could be parked on a surface by more than a factor of 2. The F4F-4 was the definitive version that saw ...