The Grumman Flyers, known also as the Grumman Bombers (1941), the Long Island Grumman Flying-Vs (1941–42), the Grumman Wildcats (1942–43), and the Grumman Hellcats (1944–45) were a men's professional basketball team owned and sponsored by the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation based in Bethpage, New York. Most of the Flyers home games were played at the Freeport High School gymnasium in Freeport, New York. After the United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941, the team was bolstered by several professional basketball players who left their teams to come work for Grumman manufacturing planes for the wartime effort.