A Rare Breed of Cat

The Flying Heritage Collection’s F6F-5 joins a handful of flying Hellcats. In June 1942, while the Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat was taking the Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero’s measure at Midway, Grumman was completing a successor designed to wrest the sky from the nimble Japanese fighter once and for all. First flying on June 26, the F6F-3 Hellcat …

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