Eighty-five years ago today, a warbird legend was born. On May 29, 1940, the prototype Chance Vought F4U Corsair roared to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Vought F4U Corsair was a multi-role aircraft: fighter, ground attacker, and ice cream maker. By late September 1944, the men of U.S. Marine fighter squadron VMF-122 were stuck on Peleliu and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Vought F4U Corsair plane restored by the late Gerry ... The Fargo Air Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission varies from $8 for children to $12 for adults ...

Fernando Soto in 1970 atop his Honduran Corsair, with symbols marking his ... Nearly a dozen were military-surplus Vought F4U-4, F4U-5, and F4U-5N Corsairs bought privately and imported through ...

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 ...

A vintage F4U ... the Chance Vought Corporation in 1946. The plane was used by many Marine Corps squadrons until 1953. The Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla., transferred the Corsair to ...