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Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:49 am
I think I know but you try and figure it out
Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:00 pm
With the chin-scoop arrangement, it is either a -4 or -7 corsair. However, the antenna arrangement is one I've only seen on -7 corsairs. This most likely makes it Bu.133704 during its days outside at the Alabama memorial. The location area looks about right, but I am unsure of the concrete plinth it is mounted on. Was she ever mounted this way? Cool picture none the less, and thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
Richard
Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:08 pm
I agree, at the USS Alabama. (I have a similar pic from 83-84)
It is a -7, it has the raised canopy (or lack of)
They had (have) a F6F and P-51 in similar state on cement and in salt air.
The OS2U was on the catapult.
Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:49 pm
Jack, here is the same aircraft in the same position with a coat of paint. Taken on 3 July 1974 by John R. Kerr
Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:32 pm
What a shame. Vintage aircraft outside in the salt air...in a hurricane prone area.
Scott
Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:02 pm
Then of course there was the plane's complete submersion in salt water during Katrina.

Any idea what date that photo was taken Jack?
Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:48 am
Per article in lastest "AC" this Corsair is actually the last surviving AU-1...
Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:01 am
Tom Crawford wrote:Per article in lastest "AC" this Corsair is actually the last surviving AU-1...
If AC said this, then they are incorrect. It is indeed the F4U-7, now housed indoors (with the salt water bath) at the Alabama Museum in Mobile, Alabama.
There are no known AU-1 survivors. This aircraft has merely been painted to represent one. The chin-scoop on the aircraft is a dead give-away that it is not an AU-1. There is a single scoop at bottom of the nose cowling, like the -4 and -7, rather than the covered-over "chipmunk-like" jowls of the AU-1... I always thought, rather comically, that the AU-1 looked like a chipmunk who'd stuffed both cheeks with nuts... silly, I know, but there you go!
Cheers,
Richard
Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:25 am
Interesting.....Thanks, Tom
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