GIN114- Ginter Books C-9A "Nightingale" C-9B "Skytrain II

The iconic Douglas DC-9 airliner was chosen by the USAF for a aeromedical evacuation and VIP transport aircraft as the C-9A and VC-9C respectively and by the US Navy/USMC as a passenger/cargo...

GIN224 - Ginter Books North American B-45 Tornado

This 264-page book about the North American B-45 is generously illustrated with 267 drawings, 355 photos, of which 15 are color aircraft images, and color drawings of 33 insignia of units which flew...

GIN305 - Ginter Books World Watchers (paperback)

Pages: 308, Size: 8.5 X 11 (inches), Format: Paperback with semi-rigid cover or softbound.Illustrations: 633 mostly color photos, 39 color profiles, 82 patches The lineage of VQ-1's "World Watchers"...

GIN304 - Ginter Books Electronic Aggressors Part Two 1978-2000

A Pictorial History of Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group (FEWSG), Fleet Tactical Readiness Group (FTRG), Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron THIRTY-THREE (VAQ-33), Tactical Electronic Warfare...

GIN303 - Ginter Books Electronic Aggressors Part One 1949-1977

A Pictorial History of Composite Squadron ASW THIRTY-THREE (VC-33), Composite Squadron Night THIRTY-THREE (VC-33), Composite Squadron All Weather THIRTY-THREE (VC-33), Carrier Special Squadron Night...

GIN301 - Ginter Books Black Knights Rule (BKR) 1946-2013

By Angelo Romano137 pagesSoftbound

GIN223 - Ginter Books Douglas C74 Globemaster

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 brought U.S. Army Air Corps strategists to the realization that a new global transport was needed to carry large loads over great distances. The...

GIN222 - Ginter Books Lockheed Xf-90 Penetration Fighter

Created by the famous Lockheed "Skunks Works" and highly publicized at the start of the 1950s, the futuristic XF-90 seemed to epitomize what a supersonic fighter ought to look like. I was one of the...

GIN219 - Ginter Books Republic XF-84H ThunderScreech

The XF-84H was derived from the RF-84F as a supersonic propeller test vehicle driven by an afterburning Allison XT-40 turboprop engine. Two aircraft were built and briefly tested as noise produced by...

GIN216 - Ginter Books United States Air Force in Vietnam

Covers all aircraft used by USAF in that conflict with in-depth first person narratives added. The color pages are all photos, the covers are Lou Drendels paintings. Most photos and the two-paintings...

GIN213 - Ginter Books Vought/Hiller/Ryan XC-142A Tiltwing VSTOL Transport

Air Force Legends Number 213 is a book about the test and development of vertical take off and landing of an aircraft. It has many other aircraft that lead to the development of the XC-142A and lead...

GIN210 - Ginter Books Republic XF-91 Thundercepter

When post-war budget cuts ended many combat aircraft programs, the overriding importance of one of the most promising of these, known as Secret Project Number MX-809 (MX meaning Material,...

GIN209 - Ginter Books P-51H Mustang

The North American Aviation Corporation's series of "Lightweight" Mustangs, the XP-51F, XP51G, XP-51J, and ultimately the P-51H, came as a result of North American's further development of their...

GIN208 - Ginter Books Bell P-59 Airacomet

The Airacomet was the first jet aircraft built for the US Military. As a fighter, the P-59 died in infancy without the opportunity to prove its worth, overtaken by progress for which the P-59 itself...

GIN207 - Ginter Books US Air Force F-86D/L Sabre Dogs PT2

Air Force Legends Number 207 is the second volume in the North American F-86D/K/L series and covers the US Air Force usage of the F-86D/K/Ls. Duncan Curtis has taken on the task of documenting the...

GIN201 - Ginter Books Martin XB-51

This book signals a radical departure from Ginter Books Naval Fighter Series. Previously, Army/Air Force planes were only covered when the aircraft was also in service with the Navy (Naval Fighters...

GIN112 - Ginter Books Grumman F2F/F3F

The early 1930s was a time of great change in the field of military fighter aviation. At the beginning of the decade, the state-of-the-art in fighter manufacture was the use of traditional...

GIN111 - Ginter Books Abel Mable Martin AM1/1Q Mauler

"Able Mable", the Martin AM-1/1Q Mauler, was the product of a 1943 Navy contract for two prototype bomber torpedo (BT) planes. Two other contractors, Curtiss and Fleetwings also received prototype...

GIN110 - Ginter Books Douglas A-4C/L Skyhawk in Marine Service

This book covers the squadron histories of the 23-Marine units that flew the A-4C/L Skyhawk in the 1960s and 1970s. This is the 7th book in the A-4 Skyhawk series. The others are: number NF49 Navy...

GIN109 - Ginter Books Douglas A-4C/L Skyhawk Navy Service

Book six in the Naval Fighter Series on the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk covers the A-4C/L in Navy service. It covers the technical aspects of these aircraft and squadron histories including squadron patches...

GIN108 - Ginter Books McDonnell F4H-1 Phantom II Birth of A Legend

In late 1953, McDonnell Aircraft made an unsolicited proposal to the U.S. Navy for a big, carrier-based, supersonic, "All-Weather Attack Fighter". After not much more than a cursory review, it was...

GIN107 - Ginter Books Sikorsky Heavy Lift Helicopter

The USMC Deuce was originally designed as a heavy-lift assault helicopter capable of delivering 36 combat troops or equipment (up to two jeeps or field artillery) from ship to shore. It was quickly...

GIN106 - Ginter Books Vought SB2U Vindicator

The Vought SB2U Vindicator Scout Bomber was the Navy's second production carrier monoplane to fly after the Douglas TBD and for a time was the fastest aircraft in the Navy's inventory. The extremely...

GIN105 - Ginter Books Consolidated PB4Y-1/1P Liberator

The Navy's acquisition of the B-24D as a long range patrol bomber/sub hunter (PB4Y-1) and as a long range photo recon platform (PB4Y-1P) marked a major shift in patrol doctrine and the eventual end...

GIN104 - Ginter Books Brewster F2A Buffalo

This comprehensive monograph covers the entire history of Brewster's much maligned Buffalo fighter aircraft. The book starts out with the background of the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation and the...

GIN103 - Ginter Books Sikorsky S-43/JRS-1 Amphibian

53 S-43/JRS-1 "Baby Clippers" were produced (31 civil, 15 Navy, 2 Marine, and 5 USAAC). The book covers all users including civilian and post war users. 10 of the Navy's JRS-1s were at Pearl Harbor...

GIN102 - Ginter Books Grumman S2F/S2 & WF-2/E-1B Tracker Part Two

The book covers the operational history of the aircraft in squadron service including the reserves and training squadrons and as a squadron utility and command aircraft at Naval Air Stations and...

GIN099 - Ginter Books Douglas AD/A-1 Skyraider Part Two

GIN098 - Ginter Books Douglas AD/A-1 Skyraider Part One

GIN097 - Ginter Books Martin PBM Mariner

The Martin PBM Mariner flying boat with its distinctive gull wing was proposed to the Navy in 1937 as a replacement for the very successful Consolidared PBY. The major differences were: it was to be...

GIN096 - Ginter Books Consolidated P2Y Ranger

The book begins with a 24-page in depth review of the origins of the patrol flying boat covering most Curtiss boats (except the NC boats), the Naval Aircraft Factory PN boats and their derivatives...

GIN095 - Ginter Books Douglas R4D-8/C-117D Super Gooney

15-color and over 300 b&w photos and text cover its usage as a transport, VIP carrier, station hack, a trainer with VT-29, and its usage in Antarctica with VX-6 from 1952 into the 1980s. The...

GIN092 - Ginter Books Grumman F6F Hellcat

The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a carrier-based fighter aircraft developed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat in United States Navy (USN) service. Although the F6F resembled the Wildcat, it was a...

GIN090 - Ginter Books Northrop BT-1

The Northrop BT was a two seat, single engine, monoplane, dive bomber built by the Northrop Corporation for the United States Navy. At the time Northrop was a subsidiary of the Douglas Aircraft...

GIN088 - Ginter Books North American FJ-3/3M Fury

The North American FJ-2/-3 Fury were a series of swept-wing carrier-capable fighters for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Based on the United States Air Force's F-86 Sabre, these aircraft...

GIN086 - Ginter Books Lockheed-Vega PV-1 Ventura and PV-2 Harpoon

The Lockheed Ventura PV-1 AND PV-2 Harpoon was a bomber and patrol aircraft of World War II, used by United States and British Commonwealth forces in several guises. It was developed from the...

GIN085 - Ginter Books Consolidated PB2Y Coronado

The PB2Y Coronado was a large flying boat patrol bomber designed by Consolidated Aircraft. After deliveries of the PBY Catalina, also a Consolidated aircraft, began in 1935, the United States Navy...

GIN082 - Ginter Books USN/USMC Two-Seat Skyhawks

Almost from the very beginning, Douglas had suggested to the Navy that a two-seat version of the Skyhawk would be useful, both as a trainer as well as for some types of combat missions where a second...

GIN081 - Ginter Books Bell XFL-1 Airabonita

The Bell XFL-1 Airabonita was a experimental shipboard interceptor aircraft developed for the US Navy. It was similar to and a parallel development of the land-based P-39 Airacobra, differing...

GIN080 - Ginter Books Grumman F8F Bearcat

By the last half of the Second World War, most new US fighter designs were much heavier and more complex than earlier fighters. When planning a replacement for their successful F6F Hellcat carrier...

GIN079 - Ginter Books Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk Airship Fighters

The F9C was first fighter specifically designed to be dropped from mother airships. The plane would be lowered in the air stream hanging from a trapeze below the airship. The pilot would release the...

GIN076 - Ginter Books Brewster SB2A Bermuda/Buccaneer

The Brewster Bermuda is the name given by the RAF to the Brewster SB2A. In the US Navy service, the aircraft was the SB2A "Buccaneer." The Bermuda was not carrier-capable, although it was designed as...

GIN075 - Ginter Books Grumman F7F Tigercat

The lineage of Martin and the flying boat can be traced back to the PBM-4 of 1941. Navy last flying boat and the end of a long era of seaplanes in the US Navy. This book covers the complete history...

GIN074 - Ginter Books The P5M Patrol Seaplane

In 1980, I published the second book in the Naval Fighter Series, the McDonnell Banshee F2H-1, 2, 3 and 4. It was 78 pages with 95 photos and over 150 profiles. It was reprinted two time and has been...

GIN072 - Ginter Books Temco TT-1 Pinto

The XF7F-1 (Grumman G-45) was order on June 30, 1941 and was intended to operated from the forthcoming 45,000 ton Midway class carriers. It was to be the first twin engine with tricycle undercarriage...

GIN068 - Ginter Books Grumman F9F-8T/TF-9J Two-Seat Cougrs

The two seat Grumman Cougar was one of the first swept-wing trainers to be put into service with the Navy and was also one of the first two seat version of a fleet fighter. Before this the new pilots...

GIN066 - Ginter Books Grumman F9F-6/7/8 Cougar Part 1

The contract for the new Grumman Cougar (G-93) was signed on March 2, 1951. The first flight of the XF9F-6 Cougar was on September 20, 1951. When Grumman and the Navy first discussed the Panther,...

GIN065 - Ginter Books Boeing XF8B-1: 5 in 1 Fighter

The F/A 18 Hornet was not the first Naval Aircraft designed to meet all the Navy needs. The XF8B-1 was another Boeing called it the "Five-in-one" fighter (fighter, interceptor, dive bomber, torpedo...

GIN062 - Ginter Books Curtiss XBT2C-1

Volume three of the Panther story focuses on the use of the aircraft by the United States Navy. This was the first Grumman jet aircraft to go to sea. This book covers the History of the squadrons and...

GIN061 - Ginter Books Grumman F9F Panther Part 3

Volume two of the Panther story focuses on the usage of the aircraft by the United States Marines. In Korea the F9F, like its propeller-driven counterparts (AD Skyraiders and F-4U Corsairs), were...

GIN060 - Ginter Books Grumman F9F Panther Part 2

This was one of the first aircraft used as a target drone. This book explains the original concept outlining the need for a remote controlled aircraft and how that concept evolved into the QF-86...

GIN055 - Ginter Books McDonnell Douglas A-4M Skyhawk

The last version of the Skyhawk series to be built, the A-4M Skyhawk II, was obviously the most capable. While the original Skyhawks were designed as a lightweight delivery platform for nuclear...