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After war erupted in the Pacific, the Grumman F4F Wildcat was the primary fighter aircraft operated by the United States Navy and the Marine Corps. By 1942 every American Navy fighter squadron flew ...

Grumman has built some venerable seaplanes—think Goose, Albatross, Mallard, and Widgeon—but it ran aground when it put a portly F4F-3 Wildcat on floats and called it an F4F-3S seaplane fighter ...

Object Details Manufacturer Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation Physical Description Two metal connecting wire for wing fold Summary Leroy Grumman's F4F Wildcat was not the fastest or most ...

December 31, 2012 12:47 PM - Updated: February 5, 2013 3:43 PM. Naval History Magazine, Dec. 2012 ... and the U.S. Navy fitted a single Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat with floats.

In 1943, Grumman handed over production of the F4F to the General Motors plant in New Jersey; the aircraft made there were designated the FM-1 and FM-2. In the end, General Motors would produce ...

Northrop Grumman doesn't make many fighter planes anymore, of course. But what it does make may be even better -- and may turn Northrop Grumman stock into the defense stock to own in the 21st century.

This 1944 Grumman FM-2 Wildcat made by General Motors' Eastern Aircraft division, ... It was the single-engined Grumman F4F Wildcat, a carrier-based fighter first made in 1937.