• Aircraft:

  Vought F4U-7 Corsair

• Reg: NX1337A photos
• Serial #:

  133732

• Airline: Private
• Photo Date: Aug 20, 2022
• Uploaded: Oct 17, 2022
• Arlington Municipal Airport - KAWO, USA - Washington

This F4U-7 Corsair belongs to The Erickson Collection, Madras, Oregon. The F4U-7, arms with 4x20mm cannons, one of the rarest surviving variants from the last of 94 built in 1952 exclusively for use by the French Navy. It was not the early and common F4U-1 type (6 x .50 machines guns) that we saw in the Pacific War or on TV series “Black Sheep Squadron” in the 70s. It saw combat in the Indo-China War in 1953-1954, the Suez Cana War in 1956… Taken from combat service in 1963. Reconstruction began in England, 1974. it was repainted to the Marines’ colors after its acquisition by the museum in 1994 and recently painted in memory of Jesse Brown, Naval Aviator, the first African-American killed in the Korean War.

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