The Vought F4U Corsair was an American fighter and carrier-based bomber aircraft designed and manufactured by Chance Vought. The Corsair gained popularity soon after its introduction and received ...

More than 12,500 examples of this aircraft were manufactured by Vought beginning in 1940, with final delivery of 1953, in what is known as the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U ...

The U.S. Navy has a storied history of utilizing some of the most advanced and iconic aircraft in the world. From the early ...

The Vought F4U Corsair plane restored by the late Gerry Beck is on display in the Fargo Air Museum on Thursday, May 18, 2023, after being in a Minnesota air museum for the last six years. FARGO — An ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A famous piece of ...

MACON, Ga. — On Sunday an old plane landed at Lowe's Aviation to surprise a veteran who hadn't seen one since the war. Grover Sassaman looks at a F4U Corsair plane for the first time since the 1940s. ...

STRATFORD -- For the past six years, a team of about a dozen volunteers have been engaged in restoring the Chance-Vought F4U Corsair that used to sit atop a pedestal in front of Sikorsky Memorial ...

STRATFORD -- The blue Chance Vought F4U Corsair that graced the entrance to Sikorsky Memorial Airport should never return to its pedestal, according to those restoring the vintage aircraft, because ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. By V-J Day, September 2, 1945, ...

On June 12, 1943, the F4U-1 Corsair fighter crashed into the lake near Waukegan during practice landings and takeoffs from the USS Wolverine. The pilot, Carl Harold Johnson, survived the crash but was ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. By V-J Day, September 2, 1945, ...