The DouglasXFD was a carrier-based biplane fighter aircraft designed for the United States Navy, and the first fighter to be built by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
As a first-generation jet fighter, the Phantom was the first purely jet-powered aircraft to land on an American aircraft carrier [2 ] [N 1 ] and the first jet deployed by the United States Marine Corps.
The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace and defense company based in Southern California. Founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr., it merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas, where it operated as a…