Mystery Corsair

[zorro7]

F4U Folks:

Id as a F-6 Hellcat on a wwww/site somewhere at the old Miami airport c. 1960s.
Does anyone remembers this particular aircraft in the area?? other angles??

Tks in advance

[Jesse C.]

I see an AT-6/SNJ and what appears to be a TBM Avenger. Where is the F6 or Corsair?

[zorro7]

J. C:

I may be wrong.Plz click on the pic for a better resolution!! Tks

[The Inspector]

One circus wagon T-6 a TBM and what looks like a 1049 Connie, I'd love to have that dark blue 67 FAIRLANE

[maxum96]

Looking at the cars in the picture, I'd peg that picture as having been taking anywhere from the mid 70's to the early 80's. The red Camaro is a mid 70's model.

[Lynn Allen]

That sure looks like a Hellcat. Maybe Kermit's??

[51fixer]

F4U Folks:

Id as a F-6 Hellcat on a wwww/site somewhere at the old Miami airport c. 1960s.
Does anyone remembers this particular aircraft in the area?? other angles??

Tks in advance

I think there is a WIXer who is the son of the shop owner and grew up in Corrosion Corner in FL. Might be wrong but I think today he was restoring a T-6.
IIRC he started posting a few years back. Maybe the F6F was inside the hangar.

[famvburg]

Maybe considered nit-picking, but a Hellcat is an F6F, not an F-6 or F6. An F-6 is either a photo Mustang or post '62 F4D (not an F-4D either) & an F6 is a ?????.

[C VEICH]

Looks like a Hellcat to me as well.

[JohnB]

Compared to the SNJ/T-6, it looks too big to be a F-6F. I think it's a TBM.

I think the Camaro is a 75-76. Most, if not all post 76s had a plastic bumper.

[treadigraph]

I can't actually see the pic at the moment (blasted Net Nanny at work!), but I recall a Hellcat with the wings folded, sitting alongside a shed or hangar right at the western end of Miami's Cockroach Corner when I first visited in early 1984. The aircraft is now with Kermit Weekes.

Don't remember any cars; the only Connie left by then was "Clipper Dick" which I think was used by fire crews for practice out in the middle of the airport.

[b747cf]

I took that photo in the late 70's it is a F6F Hellcat I could get only one shot as I was parked on the road when taking it. I think it was owned by a Mr. Robinson at the time it is now owned by Kermit Weeks and is at his Fantasy of Flight Museum.
Here is a Photo of it from around 2004.



Mark Fidler

[N3Njeff]

The T-6 was still there into the early 90's. Mike Jones should know more if he sees this.

[b747cf]

The T-6 was later moved to Opa Locka.I last saw it their around 2000.




Mark Fidler

[China Clipper]

I remember the Corsair and a bunch more.

I grew up in Miami, in the 50s - 70s. My dad flew for PAA out of MIA 44-80, and I loved going to the airport.
I recall Corrosion Corner very well. When I saw the Corsair it was near the road, in a cluster of other aircraft including a B25. Other aircraft there were at least 3 Northrop Raider tri-motors, a C46 and a Straocruiser.

I was pretty young then but never lost those images. I wish I had a camera and taken pictures.

These are the first real good photos I have seen of Corrosion Corner from those years, despite a lot of "Google-ing". I'll pass this on to my dad to see.

Thanks!!!