Grumman ranked 22nd among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts.
ĭuring World War II, Grumman became known for its "Cats", Navy fighter aircraft, F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat, the less well known Grumman F7F Tigercat and Grumman F8F Bearcat, and for its torpedo bomber TBF Avenger. This was followed by a number of other successful designs. The first Grumman aircraft was also for the Navy, the Grumman FF-1, a biplane with retractable landing gear. Grumman designed the first practical floats with a retractable landing gear for the Navy, and this launched Grumman into the aviation market. While maintaining the business by welding aluminum tubing for truck frames, the company eagerly pursued contracts with the US Navy. The company registered as a business on December 6, 1929, and officially opened on January 2, 1930. factory in Baldwin on Long Island, New York. Leroy Grumman worked for the Loening Aircraft Engineering Corporation beginning in 1920, and when it was bought by Keystone Aircraft Corporation and the operations were moved from New York City to Bristol, Pennsylvania, in 1929, Grumman and his partners, all ex-Loening Aircraft employees, ( Edmund Ward Poor, William Schwendler, Jake Swirbul, and Clint Towl) started their own company in an old Cox-Klemin Aircraft Co.
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