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  2. List of surviving Vought F4U Corsairs - Wikipedia

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    F4U-4 at Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida. This list of surviving Vought F4U Corsairs by country location includes information about the aircraft, including model number, bureau number, fuselage markings, location within the country, and status (airworthy, on display, and in restoration).

  3. Vought F4U Corsair - Wikipedia

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    F4U-5: A 1945 design modification of the F4U-4, first flown on 21 December 1945, was intended to increase the F4U-4 Corsair's overall performance and incorporate many Corsair pilots' suggestions. It featured a more powerful Pratt and Whitney R-2800-32(E) engine with a two-stage supercharger, [ 137 ] rated at a maximum of 2,760 hp (2,060 kW).

  4. List of surviving F4U Corsairs - Wikipedia

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  5. Goodyear F2G Corsair - Wikipedia

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    The Goodyear F2G Corsair, often referred to as the "Super Corsair", is a development by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of the Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft. The F2G was intended as a low-altitude interceptor and was equipped with a 28-cylinder, four-row Pratt & Whitney R-4360 air-cooled radial engine.

  6. VMFA-214 - Wikipedia

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    VMF-214 F4U-4Bs on USS Sicily in late 1950. Flying eight F4U-4B Corsairs on 3 August 1950, VMF-214 became the first Marine squadron to see action in Korea, when they launched from USS Sicily and executed a raid against enemy installations near Inchon. After the F4Us delivered their incendiary bombs and rockets, they followed up with a series of ...

  7. List of decommissioned United States Marine Corps aircraft ...

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    Many of the squadrons were renamed and re-designated numerous times and many still exist today with other designations. The squadrons listed below reflect those squadrons that were decommissioned prior to World War II and were never reconstituted in any form. USMC Vought O2U-2 Corsairs flying past the USS Saratoga (CV-3), c. 1930.

  8. Pappy Boyington - Wikipedia

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    In fact, he rarely flew the same aircraft more than a few times. Reportedly, he would choose the F4U in the worst shape, so that none of his pilots would be afraid to fly their own aircraft. [1] A publicity photo taken of Boyington in F4U-1A Corsair number 86 was taken at Espiritu Santo (code named BUTTON), in the New Hebrides on 26 November ...

  9. VMF-422 - Wikipedia

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    Marine Fighting Squadron 422 (VMF-422) was a Vought F4U Corsair squadron in the United States Marine Corps.The squadron, also known as the "Flying Buccaneers", fought in World War II but is perhaps best known for its role in the worst accident in naval aviation history when 22 of the squadron's 23 aircraft were lost flying through a typhoon on 25 January 1944.