The Hellcat
Wreck is one of the most accessible airplane wrecks in the Solomons. The wreck
is upright, intact and in just 9m of clear water.
The Grumman
F6F Hellcat was a carrier-based fighter aircraft designed to replace the
earlier F4F Wildcat.
The Hellcat
became the Navy’s dominant fighter in the second part of World War II, a
position it did not relinquish.
The Hellcat
was best known for its role as a rugged, well-designed carrier fighter which
was able to counter the Mitsubishi A6M Zero and help secure air superiority
over the Pacific.
Such was
the quality of the basic simple, straightforward design, that the Hellcat was
the least modified fighter of the war, with a total of 12,200 being built in
just over two years.
The wreck
sits on the broken branching coral surrounded by fine branching coral. This
means no silty sediment which means great visibility. One of the most accessible
airplane wrecks in the Solomons.
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