Since 1949, the Blue Angels have flown jet fighters. Before that, they flew piston-engine aircraft, beginning with the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat, a version of the carrier-based fighter that turned the ...

The Blue Angels flew a variant of the Navy's first supersonic fighter jet, the F11F-1 Tiger, from 1957 through 1969. This means the Tiger lasted longer with the Blue Angels than it did with the ...