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9 unusual facts about Grumman


Amphibious aircraft

The Grumman Corporation, late-comers to the game, introduced a pair of light utility amphibious aircraft - the Goose and the Widgeon during the late 1930s for the civilian market.

Jake Jones

In November 1943 he was assigned to the unit on the USS Yorktown (CV-10), flying Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters.

Joe Hunt

He became a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II and, fifteen days short of his twenty-sixth birthday, was killed on a training mission off Daytona Beach, Florida, when his Grumman Hellcat crashed for still-unknown reasons.

John Bierwirth

He was best known as the CEO of Grumman during the 1970s and 1980s, a period of considerable reduction and downsizing in defense- and space-related industries.

Joseph G. Gavin Jr

(September 18, 1920 – October 30, 2010) was an American engineer responsible for the development of the lunar module used in the Apollo program, as well as president, chief operating officer and chairman of the executive committee of the Grumman Corporation.

Pearson Wanderer

The Pearson Wanderer is a sailboat designed by Bill Shaw and manufactured by Pearson Yachts (Grumman Allied Industries) between 1966 and 1971.

Thomas J.R. Hughes

Hughes began his career as a mechanical design engineer at Grumman Aerospace, subsequently joining General Dynamics as a research and development engineer.

Vought

Vought was sold from LTV and owned in various degrees by the Carlyle Group and Northrop Grumman in the early 1990s.

Northrop Grumman, the successor to Northrop and Grumman, bought out the Carlyle Group's share of Vought for $130 million in 1994.


Cranland Airport

One historic aircraft, a Grumman Widgeon formerly owned by singer Jimmy Buffett (then registered as N1471N), is housed in the main hangar.

Da Vinci Schools

Some of Da Vinci Schools’ partners include: Northrop Grumman, Belkin International, The Boeing Company, Chevron Corporation, Raytheon, SpaceX, Art Center College of Design, Mattel, Gensler, Deutsch advertising, Karten Design, Project Lead the Way, Antioch University Los Angeles, Marymount California University, and many more.

Grumman F8F Bearcat

The Bearcat concept began during a meeting between Battle of Midway veteran F4F Wildcat pilots and Grumman Vice President Jake Swirbul at Pearl Harbor on 23 June 1942.

Grumman G-44 Widgeon

Ze plane! Ze plane! is a Grumman Widgeon (N4453) seen in the opening scenes of the television series Fantasy Island delivering guests to the island.

Grumman OV-1 Mohawk

Germany and France shown early interest in the Mohawk, and Grumman actually signed a license production agreement with the French manufacturer Breguet Aviation in exchange for American rights to the Atlantic maritime patrol aircraft.

Horten Ho 229

In early 2008, Northrop-Grumman paired up television documentary producer Michael Jorgensen, and the National Geographic Channel to produce a documentary to determine whether the Ho 229 was, in fact, the world's first true "stealth" fighter-bomber.

Lake Aircraft

It was derived from an original design produced by David Thurston in 1946 when he was with Grumman Aircraft.

Mail truck

Production of the LLV began in April 1987 in Grumman's plant in Montgomery, Pennsylvania.

Naval Air Station Brunswick

Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine, was originally constructed and occupied in March 1943, and was first commissioned on April 15, 1943, to train and form-up Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilots to fly squadrons of the Chance Vought F4U Corsair, and of the Grumman TBF Avenger and F6F Hellcat, for the British Naval Command.

Naval Air Station Oceana

NAS Oceana also was the location where the F-14 took off for the last time for final flight of the type when F-14D, Bureau Number (BuNo) 164603, Modex 101, of Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31) was ferried from NAS Oceana to Calverton on Long Island, NY for permanent static display at the Northrop Grumman facilities where the Tomcat was originally built.

Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Calverton

Grumman merged with Northrop Corporation in 1994, forming Northrop Grumman Corporation and the new firm eliminated almost all operations on Long Island.

Osprey-class coastal minehunter

Twelve minehunter ships were built for the U.S. Navy by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems (formerly Litton Avondale Industries) of New Orleans and Intermarine of Savannah.

Roy Marlin Voris

Upon his retirement from the Navy, Captain Voris went to work for the Grumman Corporation in Bethpage, New York, assisting in the development of the Navy's F-14 Tomcat and NASA's Lunar Module.

Royale Airlines

It flew mainly turboprop aircraft such as the Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante, Beechcraft Model 99, Short 330 and Grumman Gulfstream G-I with the latter being a regional airliner version of Grumman's successful propjet business aircraft.

Scaled Composites Proteus

Scaled, in partnership with Northrop Grumman, is offering a fully unmanned version of the Proteus, labeled Model 395, as part of the competition for the USAF Hunter-Killer competition.

TASC, Inc

As a result, in November 2009, Northrop Grumman sold TASC, its advisory services group, to investors led by General Atlantic Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for $1.65 billion.

Thomas Mack Wilhoite

Each section of the squadron drew assigned tasks on 8 November 1942, the first day of the landings; and Wilhoite flew one of five Grumman F4F-4 Wildcats which attacked the French airdrome at Rabat-Sale, the headquarters of the French air forces in Morocco.

Titterton

George F. Titterton (1904–1998), design engineer and Senior Vice-President of the Grumman Corporation

USS Rancocas

It is used by Lockheed Martin for Aegis research and development, and houses not only Navy and Lockheed Martin personnel, but personnel from numerous subcontractors, such as Mission Solutions Engineering and Northrop Grumman.

X47

Northrop Grumman X-47B, a Northrop Grumman carrier-based unmanned aircraft


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