On July 11, 1940, the only Vought Corsair prototype crash-landed on a Connecticut golf course, nearly ending the program ...

The Corsair has two little windows on the leading edge of its wings. One contains the gun camera while the equipment in the other helps the plane land on an aircraft carrier at night. The “Approach ...

The Vought F4U Corsair plane restored by the late Gerry Beck is on display in the Fargo Air Museum on Thursday, May 18, 2023, after being in a Minnesota air museum for the last six years. FARGO — An ...

Today, when people look back at the Pacific theatre, there are two American fighter aircraft which are often remembered ...

MACON, Ga. — On Sunday an old plane landed at Lowe's Aviation to surprise a veteran who hadn't seen one since the war. Grover Sassaman looks at a F4U Corsair plane for the first time since the 1940s. ...

Flying since the mid-1970s as a private pilot, Jim Tobul of Bamberg began in earnest doing his part to keep the military service of warbirds, their courageous pilots and their legacy alive by joining ...

When you ask Trent Latshaw what's the best thing about owning an F4U, he will struggle to put his answer into words. Latshaw, 61, has owned the Vought F4U-4 for about a year. Latshaw said his F4U was ...

HARTFORD The Stratford-born F4U Corsair, a famous World War II fighter that earned the nickname "Whistling Death" from its Japanese foes, will soon become Connecticut s official state aircraft.

Fighter planes get all the love. There's not much argument about that. Most people will tell you that World War Two's greatest American navy aircraft was the F6F Hellcat or the F4-U Corsair. But what ...