San Diego Air & Space Museum

Aircraft & Spacecraft Collection

Mitsubishi A6M7 Zero-sen

The Mitsubishi A6M Zero was a lightweight fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) from 1940 to 1945. It was by far the most famous and widely used aircraft in Japanese history. The origin of its official designation was A signifying a fighter and 6 signifying for the sixth model built by Mitsubishi M.

Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat

The Grumman F6F Hellcat was descended from the earlier F4F Wildcat, sharing only a slight resemblance. The F6F was a carrier-based and land-based fighter. The design was strongly influenced by the Navy's need for a powerful fighter to counter Japan's air superiority in the Pacific – a dominance due principally to their A6M Zero fighter.

Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat

The first of Grumman's Cats and their first monoplane began life on the drawing board in 1935. It was the U.S. Navy's sole carrier-based fighter at the start of World War II. A contemporary of the Japanese Zero, its performance was inferior in many respects, yet the F4F held its own because of superior armament, rugged construction and well-trained pilots.

Lincoln-Standard J-1

The Standard Aircraft Company of Plainfield, New Jersey, developed a two-place trainer, similar to the JN-4D, more commonly known as the Jenny, only to have it phased out during World War I when its Hall-Scott engine developed a nasty habit of catching fire in mid-air.

Consolidated PT-1

The PT-1 was the first major production aircraft to come out of Major Reuben H. Fleet's Consolidated Aircraft Corporation of Buffalo, New York. Major Fleet obtained the design and manufacturing rights to the Dayton-Wright TW-3 trainer, and formed Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in 1923. In 1924, the Army Air Corps selected the PT-1, a design based on modifications of the Dayton-Wright TW-3, as a primary trainer to replace the aging Curtiss Jenny fleet.

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