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F7F TIGERCAT First Time Offered! R2800's, Excellent condition, Marine blue paint, regularly flown. Price includes spares.
The F7F-4N Tigercat is a two-seat night fighter version equipped with a tail hook and other naval equipment. A total of thirteen F7F-4Ns were built. It has an external length of 13.82 meters, an external height of 3.3 meters, and a fuselage diameter of 1 meter.
23 paź 2008 · An F7F long owned by the Kalamazoo Air Museum in Michigan, it was made available for sale last spring. Word quickly found its way to airplane collector Rod Lewis, founder and CEO of San Antonio...
The Grumman F7F Tigercat is a heavy fighter aircraft that served with the United States Navy (USN) and United States Marine Corps (USMC) from late in World War II until 1954. It was the first twin-engine fighter to be deployed by the USN.
The XF7F-1 Tigercat was unusual for a fighter, with its shoulder-mounted wings, twin underwing-mounted engines, all-metal construction and tricycle landing gear. Before the prototype even flew for the first time, Grumman was contracted to build 500 of them for the US Marine Corps, to be used as close-support aircraft for the massive landing ...
The F7F Tigercat line was produced as a single-seat fighter, night fighter, electronic and photo-reconnaissance with later versions being updated with R-2800-34 engines, which provided increased power.
Ordered in 1941, the Grumman F7F "Tigercat" was the Navy's first twin-engine fighter design to be built in production quantities and the first to incorporate tricycle landing gear.
