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Some Naval reserve units flew Hellcats after the war but they were quickly phased out, sent to storage yards (Litchfield Park, AZ) and scrapped. Foreign Govts wanted the best, most affordable planes for their navies and that would have been the Corsair at the time.

Few Wildcats and Hellcats survived scrapping after the war. Some that are flying today were saved by farsighted individuals with the financial means or even pulled out of Lake Michigan.

Bearcats and Tigercats (developed after the Hellcat) flew with some active and reserve units after the war but they were never manufactured in large number to begin with as jet aircraft showed that the writing was on the wall.

The few Tigercats flying today spent their post military lives fighting forest fires and were retired in the '60s and '70s. If it weren't for their fire fighting roles there probably wouldn't be any Tigercats except one or two museum examples.