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[Source: U.S. Navy]
F9F Panthers of VMF 115 taxi out for take off on a mission over Korea on March 15, 1953
[Source: U.S. Navy]
Grumman F9F-5P Panther.
[Source: U.S. Navy]
F9F-2 Panther (Bu. 123494) of VF-21 Mach Busters on the USS Midway (CVB-41) in 1952.
[Source: U.S. Navy]
The XF9F-2 and XF9F-3 prototypes in 1948. Two Grumman F9F Panther prototypes in flight in 1948. The aircraft closer to the camera is the XF9F-3 (BuNo 122476), having an Allison J33-A-8 engine, the further plane is a XF9F-2, powered by a Pratt & Whitney J42-P-6 engine (a licence-built Rolly-Royce Nene).
[Source: U.S. Navy]
F9F-2 Panther production line.
[Source: Grumman Archives]
A Grumman F9F-2 Panther of Marine fighter squadron VMF-223 Bulldogs on the deck edge elevator of the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) in the early 1950s.
[Source: Robbie Stuart Collection]
F2H-2 Banshees of Fighter Squadron (VF) 172 and an F9F-2P Panther of Composite Squadron (VC) 61 pictured on board the carrier Essex (CV 9) operating in the waters off Korea on September 15, 1951
[Source: National Museum Of Naval Aviation]
Grumman XF9F-2 (Bu. 122477) At Floyd Bennett Field, May 15, 1948.
[Source: William T. Larkins]
Grumman XF9F-2 Panther prototype in flight, flown by Grumman test pilot C.H. "Corky" Meyers over Long Island, NY, in 1948.
[Source: U.S. Navy]
F9F Panthers breaking over a docked U.S.S. Boxer (CV-21).
[Source: Jack Cook Collection]
Four F9F Panthers of VF-192 in diamond formation over NAS Moffett Field, CA, in 1954.
[Source: National Museum Of Naval Aviation]
F9F-2 Panthers of VF-71 make a low altitude pass over the gate of at NAS Quonset Point, RI, on May 8, 1950
[Source: National Museum Of Naval Aviation]
5-inch High Velocity Aircraft Rockets (HVAR) pictured on the wing racks of an F9F Panther at the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation in Bethpage, NY, circa 1951
[Source: Mark Allen Collection]
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