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The FJ was related to the F-86 Sabre, but the relationship between the types was far more complex than one being a derivative of another. The FJ-1 was the straight-winged ancestor of the F-86.

North American’s FJ Fury series began with the FJ-1 straight-wing jet. North American's first carrier jet, the FJ Fury, got the first operational carrier jet fighter attention. On 12 September 1946 test pilot Wallace A. "Wally" Lien took a new Navy jet fighter, the North American FJ-1 Fury, on its maiden flight. The T-2C Buckeye shares its wing with the FJ-1 Fury, one of the Navy's earliest jet fighters. On 10 March 1948 the carrier suitability of the FJ-1 Fury jet fighter was tested on board Boxer off San Diego, with a number of landings and takeoffs by Commander Evan Aurand and Lieutenant Commander R. M. Elder of Fighter Squadron 5A. Because its performance was disappointing only 31 were built and it had a brief service life.

It seemed a logical development for the company to produce a swept-wing, carrier-based fighter. It would be designated FJ-2 and would first fly on 27 December 1951. The FJ-2 Fury was the "Navalized" version of the F-86 Sabre. The straight-winged FJ-1 gave rise to the U.S. Air Force's swept-wing F-86 Sabre, and in 1951 the Navy ordered three prototypes of the swept-wing fighter which formed the basis of the Navy’s FJ-2. However, the FJ-2 was heavier than the F-86 and underpowered for carrier operations. All FJ-2s were powered by a single General Electric J47-GE-2 engine with 6,000 pounds thrust. A total of 200 were built, but all delivered to the Marine Corps for shore-based operation.

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