Did Al Williams fly through the Shenandoah's hangar?

[JFS61]

Interesting...if it was a Vought, that probably was the airplane he borrowed from Rodger Wolfe Kahn, the only world-famous jazz musician to become a test pilot, and later a VP, for Grumman.

I'm assuming that since Williams was a Navy pilot, and the VE-7 was in service as the Navy's primary fighter at the time, it was indeed a Navy plane, and not a borrowed civilian aircraft.

[Stephan Wilkinson]

Yeah, you must be right. It was some time later, as a civilian, that he borrowed Kahn's airplane, after crashing his first (Curtiss Hawk) Gulfhawk.