Development of the Hellcat started in mid-1941 with Grumman’s G-50 design, which was initially designated XF6F-1; it first ...

Born in France in 1854, Alexander Coeur later immigrated to Nova Scotia, where he met and married Nellie Harrigan. The newly ...

He died when his Grumman Hellcat plane crashed into the summit of Sawel, the highest peak in the area. Wreckage from the crash was recently recovered by aviation archaeologist Jonny McNee ...

Wreckage from the crash was recently recovered by aviation archaeologist Jonny McNee, assisted by a group of pupils from Foyle College. An appeal has been issued to trace the relatives of the fallen ...

Gulfstream was initially a Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation project, a company best known for its rugged military aircraft. Established in 1930 by Leroy Grumman and his associates, Grumman had ...

Grumman mulled plans to replace the Avenger with F6F Hellcat fighters and slowly began phasing it out in 1943, leaving its production to General Motors, who designated it as TBM. In mid-1944, GM ...

By the summer of 1944, the US navy had replaced its pre-war Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter with the F6F Hellcat which had upgraded armament, speed and range. Captain David McCampbell, the US navy’s top ...

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman secured approval to build an expansion complex for about 1,200 employees that features a single-story, 50-foot-tall high bay at Melbourne Orlando International ...