U.S. Navy Grumman F3F-1

Name: U.S. Navy Grumman F3F-1 - Cavalcade of Wings
SKU: Model-0131

Model ID#:

0131

YEAR:

1937

Airline/Service:

U.S. Navy

Name:

N/A

Classification:

Military

Type:

Fighter

Manufacturer:

Grumman

Designation:

F3F-1

MODEL BY:

M. Bussey

Model Scale:

1/32

MODEL ADDED:

09/07/1965

historical significance

First Albuquerque Visit: 1937

SKU: Model-0131 Categories: Military, Fighter

Additional Information:

The Grumman F3F is a biplane fighter aircraft produced for the United States Navy during the mid-1930s. Designed as an improvement on the F2F, it entered service in 1936 as the last biplane to be delivered to any American military. It was retired from front line squadrons at the end of 1941 before it could serve in World War II. The F3F, which inherited the Leroy Grumman-designed retractable main landing gear configuration first used on the Grumman FF, served as the basis for a biplane design ultimately developed into the much more successful F4F Wildcat. Several have survived and are flying today.

The US Navy Grumman F3Fs were frequent transient visitors to Oxnard Field in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1937.

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