There are no Panther photos yet, but this is the type of paint scheme that we would like to use.
Midway's Hangar
The Restoration Facility for the USS MIDWAY museum
(Currently known as The San Diego Aircraft
Carrier Museum, on the USS Midway CV-41)
Grumman F9F Panther
The F9F
Panther was Grumman's first jet fighter. First flight took place in 1947, with the Panther
becoming operational in 1949. Flying off of the USS Valley Forge, F9F-2s became the first
Navy jet fighter ever used in combat when they went into action over Korea on July 3,
1950, and on November 9 the same year an F9F pilot became the Navy's first to shoot down a
jet aircraft when he destroyed a MiG-15. |
There are no Panther photos yet, but this is the type
of paint scheme that we would like to use.
This aircraft is on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation.