Aviation Museum News
Intrepid Museum Acquires Iconic FG-1D Corsair
Intrepid Museum Acquires Rare WWII Corsair Aircraft, Set for Public Unveiling in March 2025 […]
Chance Vought Corsair
Warbird Restorations
MAPS Air Museum’s FG-1D Corsair Restoration
During WWII, Goodyear Aircraft Corporation (GAC) manufactured approximately 4,000 Corsairs, categorized into three main variants: the FG-1, FG-1A, and FG-1D. These variants closely resembled Vought-Sikorsky’s F4U-1, F4U-1A, and F4U-1D designs, respectively. GAC also constructed a […]
Airshow News
Tyabb Airshow 2024
By James Kightly, Commissioning Editor, and Nigel Hitchman In Victoria, Australia, another successful Tyabb airshow has been notched up by the Peninsula Aero Club. As always the show managed to touch a remarkably wide diversity […]
Airshow News
Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival Fights The Weather
By Grant Newman The hard-working management team running the Wings over Wairarapa (WoW) Air Festival cannot seem to get a break. With previous airshows curtailed owing to COVID-19 and Cyclone Gabrielle, this year the team […]
Warbird Restorations
Connecticut Air and Space Center’s FG-1D Corsair: Restoration Update – April, 2021
by Jerry M. O’Neill In 1971, after her journey from San Salvador to the USA, FG-1D Corsair Bu.92460 experienced the indignity of major parts removal, as part of a weight reduction effort to enable her new duty […]
Warbirds News
Birdcage Corsair Downunder – Restoration Update April, 2021 – Engine Installation
We have been following the restoration of Vought F4U-1 Corsair Bu.02270 at Parafield Airport near Adelaide, Australia for some years now. Owned by Bob Jarrett, the fighter is a USMC combat veteran from the Pacific […]
Warbirds News
Honduran Corsair – A Legend For Sale Downunder
The Vought F4U Corsair is, without doubt, one of the most potent and charismatic fighter aircraft to emerge from WWII. With its unconventional, inverted gull-wing profile and brutish good looks, not to mention its legendary […]