The sole prototype was rebuilt into the XF2G with the addition of a single float and a different engine, but the aircraft was destroyed in a crash in 1928, and the type did not enter production.

The Eberhart Aeroplane and Motor Company produced its first original plane in 1927—the XFG—as a shipboard fighter for the U.S. Navy.

An unusual feature was the application of sweepback to the upper mainplane and forward sweep to the lower.

The sole XFG-1 prototype, bureau number A7944,[1] was tested by the United States Navy in late 1927, and was returned to Eberhart, where it was reconstructed as the XF2G with the addition of a single float[2] and a new 400 hp (300 kW) Pratt & Whitney R-1340-D engine.

The XF2G-1[N 1] prototype was sent back to the Navy for testing at Anacostia in January 1928, but in March 1928, the plane crashed during trials and was destroyed.