This episode follows Leroy Grumman’s early breakthroughs and the step by step evolution that led to the F4F Wildcat, from prewar prototypes to combat reality in the Pacific. Outmatched on paper, the ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — One FM-2 Wildcat fighter plane that currently resides at Air Zoo has seen better days. The aircraft has spent the past nearly 80 years either at the bottom of Lake Michigan ...

KALAMAZOO, MI – The restoration of a General Motors/Eastern Aircraft Division FM-2 "Wildcat" fighter that sat upside down on the bottom of Lake Michigan for 68 years has officially begun at the Air ...

A Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighter, which crashed into Lake Michigan during World War II training in December 1944, was recently recovered in December 2022. The barnacle-encrusted aircraft, remarkably ...

A World War II fighter plane that spent nearly seven decades at the bottom of Lake Michigan will have a new home. The fully restored FM-2 Wildcat fighter plane will be on permanent display at the ...

ALAMEDA — A World War II-era fighter plane that spent 50 years at the bottom of Lake Michigan has taken on a new role as an exhibit at the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum. The aircraft, an F4F ...

ALAMEDA – The public can attend a ribbon cutting aboard the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum on Saturday for its newest aircraft to go on display — a restored FM2 “Wildcat” recovered from Lake ...

Ensign James Lischer ducked under the wing of his Wildcat fighter to shield himself from the intense shell fire as the Japanese fleet closed in on his aircraft carrier. “Good Luck!” the 21-year-old ...

A tweet from the U.S. Naval Institute demonstrates the dramatic difference between two of naval aviation’s most advanced planes, 104 years apart. Over the past century, the cost of tactical aircraft ...