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Small bizjet that looks a bit like the Cessna Citation Excel, but then with slightly swept wings, winglets and cockpit windows similar to the HondaJet. Only a couple were built.

The Intruder has a wide fuselage with side-by-side cockpit. The long, narrow air intakes are at the sides of the fuselage, slightly tilted and in front of the canopy. They feed two engines at the bottom of the fuselage, with exhausts below and just after the wings. The rear fuselage is rather slender, ending in a conventional tail with a trapezium shaped vertical stabiliser.

Grumman Albatross

The biggest of the Grumman amphibians is the Albatross. Compared to the similar shaped, but smaller Mallard it has six curved cockpit windows and a larger diameter fuselage. The standard power­plants are two radial engines in the wing's leading edge.

Grumman AO-1/OV-1 Mohawk

The Grumman Mohawk is a twin-turboprop observation and attack aircraft. Apart from the three fin tail and mid fuselage wing attachment, the cockpit seems to have traces of the S-2 Tracker.

Grumman C-2 Greyhound

This is the cargo version of the the E-2 Hawkeye. It lacks the radar disk on top of the fuselage, but retains the typical four fin tail and other Hawkeye features. Additionally, the C-2 has a larger diameter fuselage, with a rear loading ramp at the back.

With its large radar disk on top of the fuselage, big engine nacelles, single wheel main landing gears with wheels on the inside of the legs, and four fin tail the Grumman Hawkeye is hard to misidentify. Except from its Chinese copy only of course, the Xi'an KJ-600.

Famous from the movie Top Gun the F-14 Tomcat is recognised by many. It has the same general appearance as the F-15 Eagle, with some notable differences. The F-14 has inward tilted wedge shaped air intakes, outward tilted vertical stabilisers and variable sweep wings. Also there is more room between the engines than on the F-15.

Grumman F4F Wildcat

Grumman's first mono-plane fighter has its wings through the middle of the short fuselage. On top the canopy pops out quite high, but remains flush with the rear fuselage. The main gear retracts into the sides of the forward fuselage, just in front of the wings. This is the main difference compared to the later F6F Hellcat and F8F Bearcat.

Grumman F6F Hellcat

The successor to the F4F Wildcat looks similar at first, but is significantly different. The wings go through the fuselage near the bottom, and the main gear is attached to the wings and retracts in them rearward, rotating in the process.

Grumman F7F Tigercat

Grumman’s twin radial piston engine fighter has large nacelles under the wings ending pointed behind the wings. The wings of the F7F are mounted above the middle of the fuselage, so a long nose landing gear is needed to provide prop clearance. The tail is a tall rounded rectangle.