Tucked inside the headquarters building of the MAPS Air Museum in Green, volunteers are restoring an Akron-built Corsair, one of the U.S. military's most successful and powerful fighters in World War ...

The Intrepid Museum received an iconic WWII Corsair for a months-long restoration project on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in New York City. A World War II FG-1D Corsair, courtesy of the National Naval ...

Aviation enthusiasts have been hearing about it all week. Now they’ll get a chance to see it. Selfridge Military Air Museum will host a public unveiling for their newly restored FG-1D Corsair fighter ...

Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...

The federal government has filed a lawsuit against an airplane collector demanding the return of the wreckage of a World War II Corsair fighter that the Navy abandoned after it crashed in a North ...

Keegan Chetwynd walked through the museum hangar doors Monday toward what is perhaps America’s most legendary fighter plane. He looped around the tail, strolling up the portside, stopping underneath ...

In the European Theater of World War II, the P-51 Mustang was the top aircraft when it came to shooting down or otherwise nullifying Axis airpower. In the Pacific, planes like the P-38 Lightning ...

The F4U Corsair and P-51 Mustang arrive at RIAT with the kind of sound only warbirds can deliver. The Corsair’s radial engine growls in, then the Mustang follows with that unmistakable Merlin tone.

EVERETT — When Helen Vaudrin was assembling American fighter planes in 1942, it felt like just a job to her. The real-life “Rosie the Riveter” couldn’t comprehend the historical significance of her ...