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Magnificent Corsairs Worldwide

It is somewhat rare to see Corsairs

gathered in numbers. The Yankee

Air Museum’s Thunder Over

Michigan airshow in 2011 had six.

Five of those flew demonstrations

for the crowd. [John Freedman]

ABOVE RIGHT: After its US Navy

service F4U-5 Bu.123168 ended up in

Honduras from 1956 to 1978. It

returned to the US as components,

and combined with parts from

Bu.122179, which it assumed the ID

of. N179NP and is being flown by

Dave Folk. [John Freedman]

Goodyear built FG-1D Bu.67089 ‘Skyboss’ is owned by Jeff Clyman

F4U Inc. and based at the American Heritage Museum at

Farmington New York. disassembled and stored for many years

till Bob Odegaard restored it in 1999. [John Freedman]

Supporting the ‘Top Ten Corsair Survivors’ we

featured in the previous edition, Flightpath

presents here a selection of notable

Corsairs in preservation and flying today.