Designed to meet a lightweight shipboard fighter requirement in competition with the Berliner-Joyce XFJ-1 and Curtiss XF9C-1, the XFA-1 was built by the General Aviation Corporation, the successor to the US Fokker Aircraft Corporation, and was tested by the US Navy in March 1932. Powered by a 400hp Pratt & Whitney R-985A Wasp Junior engine, the XFA-1 was a single-bay staggered biplane with the upper wing gulled into the fuselage. It employed all-metal construction with fabric skinning for wing and tail surfaces, proposed armament being two fuselage-mounted 7.62mm machine guns. The XFA-1 was not notably successful during Navy trials and further development was discontinued.

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