Martin AM Mauler

The Martin AM Mauler, first designated XBTM, was a single-seat carrier-based attack aircraft built by the Glenn L. Martin Company for the United States Navy. Designed during World War II as a reliable backup to a Curtiss design, it was a low-wing all-metal monoplane with folding wings and a Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radial engine, and the first prototype flew on 26 August 1944. Development delays meant service entry only in 1948, the aircraft proved troublesome, and the Navy preferred the simpler Douglas AD Skyraider, so the Mauler stayed in front-line service until 1950 and in reserve squadrons until 1953.