The Vought F4U ... 2, BuNo 88463 (Race 74), unfortunately was destroyed in a crash in September 2012, just over a year after a full restoration was completed in July 2011. Additionally, an FG-1D ...

But the real king of the skies over the Pacific Ocean was the Vought F4U Corsair. It was a veritable hotrod of a fighter plane, and with a top speed of 446 miles per hour, it was briefly the ...

More than 12,500 examples of this aircraft were manufactured by Vought beginning ... the F4U became the most capable carrier-based fighter-bomber of the conflict. The Corsair flew also during ...

Among them was the Vought F4U Corsair, one of the most common fighters in the skies over the Pacific during the war years, and later above Korea. Having entered service in 1940 as a mostly carrier ...

Back in the early 1940s, factories on most of the world’s continents were busy churning out war machines to aid in the global conflict that had just started. That era was one of incredibly fast ...

During World War II, many Japanese regarded America’s Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft as the most capable aircraft in the conflict. This belief was based on more than a feeling; by the end ...

The Vought F4U Corsair 310 was restored by the late Gerry Beck of Wahpeton in the 1980s. It was originally flown by the U.S. Navy in the late 1940s. It was later sold to and used by the Honduran ...

Caroline Geraghty Limavady woman Caroline Geraghty photographed the wreckage in 2017 The Vought F4U Corsair was one of the most successful fighters of the war. The wreckage can be seen clearly at ...