this being an F8F-2 painted to represent a Bearcat once flown by the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels aerial demonstration team. Grumman built this Bearcat as construction number D.1162. The US Navy soon ...
The F8F-1 Bearcat was powered by a 2,100 horsepower ... flying the F9F-5 Panther. An early U.S. Navy and Marine Corps carrier-based fighter aircraft, the F9F was a straight-wing jet, and was ...