 The wreckage of three -2 aircraft which had originally crashed in Hawaii were utilized to complete the other restorations.The F3F was featured as the XFAA-1 "experimental fighter" in Warner Bros.'s "Wings of the Navy" (1939).The F3F-2 was featured in the 1940 film "Flight Command", starring Robert Taylor as a pilot whose work developing instrument landing systems helps his lost squadron return to NAS North Island.