Notable Appearances in Media
The Grumman Goose has been featured in films and television. A U.S. Navy JRF-1 Goose in early World War II paint scheme appears in full color close-up water-taxiing and climbing a ramp in the 1943 submarine film Crash Dive.
In the 1967 film Tobruk starring Rock Hudson and George Peppard, Maj. Donald Craig (Hudson) is rescued from Vichy forces in Algeria by a team of Jewish commandos posing as Nazis and led by Capt. Kurt Bergman (Peppard). They make their get-away in a silver Grumman Goose painted with Nazi crosses and they go on to sabotage German defenses and fuel stores near Tobruk in conjunction with an Allied amphibious assault there.
A Grumman Goose is the Bayley's bird in the serie, "The Bailey's Bird". It's an Australian serie in 1979. The Action took place in Malaysia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVM3PIgR0Bs
A Grumman Goose with Pan Air’s retractable wing-tip float modification plays a major role in the motion picture Commando (1985).
A Goose named Cutter's Goose is prominent in the 1980s TV series Tales of the Gold Monkey starring Stephen Collins, inspired by the movie Only Angels Have Wings.
In the Quantum Leap TV series (1992), during the Ghost Ship episode Sam Beckett leaps into a co-pilot tasked with flying a converted VIP carrying Grumman Goose through the dangers of the Bermuda Triangle to save a critically ill passenger and mentally unstable pilot. (This was footage from the pilot episode of Tales of the Gold Monkey).
In Jimmy Buffett's first novel, Where is Joe Merchant?, protagonist Frank Bama owned and operated a rebuilt Grumman Goose dubbed the Hemisphere Dancer. (The actual Hemisphere Dancer is a Grumman Albatross that belongs to Buffett and is now the centerpiece for his Margaritaville Cafe restaurant in Orlando, Florida.)
A Grumman Goose with a luxurious interior appears in the first episode of the third season of the animated FX network series Archer.
In the PS3 video game Uncharted Victor Sullivan's {aka "Sully"} sea plane is a Grumman Goose named "Wild Hog".
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