Grumman F-9 Cougar - Aircraft On Display

Aircraft On Display

• F9F-6 Cougar, bureau number 128109, is on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum in NAS Pensacola, Florida.

• F9F-7 Cougar, bureau number 130763, is on display at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York.

• F9F-7 Cougar, bureau number 130802, is on display at the Wings of Eagles Discovery Center in Horseheads, New York.

• F9F-8 Cougar, bureau number 131063, is on display at the Texas Air Museum in Slaton, Texas.

• F9F-8 Cougar, bureau number 131230, is on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum in NAS Pensacola, Florida.

• F9F-8 Cougar, bureau number 131232, is on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.

• F9F-8 Cougar, bureau number 141117, is on display at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York, New York. It is on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation). It was built in Grummans' Bethpage factory in 1955 and retired from active service in 1965. Once restored, it will wear the colors of fighter squadron VF-61, which flew from Intrepid in 1956.

• F9F-8 Cougar, bureau number 141121, is on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, Arizona.

• F9F-8P Cougar, bureau number 141702, is on display at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California.

• F9F-8P Cougar, bureau number 141722, is on display at the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum in MCAS Miramar, California.

• F9F-8P Cougar, bureau number 144426, is on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, Arizona.

• F9F-8 Cougar, bureau number 144275, is under restoration for display at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. It is on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation and is painted to represent the narrator's aircraft for the U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision flight demonstration team.

• F9F-8T Cougar, bureau number 147276, is on display at the USS Lexington Museum in Corpus Christi, Texas.

• F9F-8T Cougar, bureau number 147283, is on display at the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

• F9F-8T Cougar, bureau number 147385 is on display in the hangar deck of the USS Yorktown (CV-10) at the Patriot's Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

• F9F-8T Cougar, bureau number 147397, is on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, Arizona.

• F9F-6P Cougar, bureau number unknown, is on display at The Town of Tonawanda Veterans Memorial in the Town of Tonawanda, New York. The Cougar airframe, which is on loan to the town from the U.S. government, has been on display at the site since May 1959. During the construction of the Town of Tonawanda Veterans Memorial in the summer of 2009, a local auto collision shop volunteered to refurbish the F9F-6P airframe. To refurbish the aluminum structure, volunteers removed all old paint, pounded out dents, filled in cracks and gaps, repainted all surfaces, and applied decals to the fuselage and wings. The entire process and took roughly three weeks to complete. However, the blue colour and the markings do not represent any historic U.S. Navy camouflage. Since its installation, the F9F-6P airframe had been used as a piece of playground equipment by local children. However, in February 2009, town government officials received paperwork from the National Museum of Naval Aviation requesting that the town take full responsibility for the loaned airframe's upkeep and make an effort to prevent people from climbing on its wings and fuselage. In response to this request, the town has installed signage asking visitors to refrain from climbing on the airframe.