Grumman F9F Panther series

This is the start of a very lengthy project to detail the operational histories of the entire run of Grumman F9F Panther naval and marine jet fighters of the 1950s. These straight-wing fighters were the US Navy’s primary combat aircraft in the Korean War (along with the F2H Banshee).

Note: These pages will not include the bent-wing Cougar variant, that will come later.

There were five distinct production models of the F9F Panther and a total of 1,382 were built. All are included on a single page for ease of reading...

F9F Panther series

For their assistance in various parts of this project, I would like to give thanks to the following individual people...

Tom Bispo for the lion's share of this plane's information.
Joseph F. Baugher for the bureau number list.


Thanks!