Grumman f6f hellcat

The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a carrier-based fighter aircraft developed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat in United States Navy (USN) service. Although the...

F6F Hellcat

F6F-3 Hellcat fighter being prepared for launch aboard USS Yorktown during the carrier’s shakedown cruise, May 1943.

F-4 Wildcats

“It's Friday, we're taking off”

The British Fleet Air Arm FAA received 1,263 Grumman F6Fs under the Lend-Lease Act; initially, it was known as the Grumman Gannet Mark I. The name Hellcat replaced it in early 1943 the Royal Navy at that time adopting the use of the existing American naval names for all the U.S. made aircraft supplied to it, with the F6F-3 being designated Hellcat F Mk. I, the F6F-5, the Hellcat F Mk. II and the F6F-5N, the Hellcat NF Mk. II. They saw action off Norway, in the Mediterranean, and in the Far…

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The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a fighter aircraft used by the United States Navy in World War II. The Hellcat was designed for use aboard United States Navy aircraft carriers.