Corsair ID? Mojave 1980

John Kerr · **Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:09 pm

Many thanks Steve and James for posting the pictures of N3771A. These are the only photos
I have seen of it in these markings. Well Done.

zorro7 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:07 pm **Posts:** 483

James:

Good day!

Tks for postings those historical pictures of F4U-4 #46. The name of Wally McDonnnell surfaces with this airframe #46 (Wix), as well as a poss IDs swap with another F4U-4 at Mojave not Pima.

.... there is only one c/n & Buno for F4U #46 at Mohave ..did anyone venture to know the real ID of this particular aircraft?? furthermore, how this ID swap took place??

zorro7 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:07 pm **Posts:** 483

James:

Good day!

Tks for the nice F4U #46 pics again! Would you mind posting the link(s) fm the models magazine (s)? I'm searching for another poss angles or stories of this aircraft. Tks

corsair166b · **Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:49 pm

Just to chip this in....on the website that I contribute to, www.f4ucorsair.com, click on the 'Living Legends' section abd under the Gerry Beck #310 Corsair there is a photo by Doug Fisher of a Corsair in storage that is a former Wally McDonald machine....maybe this is what you guys are looking for.

Mark

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:26 am

FYI, Here's a link about the Corsair's used in Flyers" on a previous WIX Thread:
http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... f=3&t=7649

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

corsair166b wrote:

Just to chip this in....on the website that I contribute to, http://www.f4ucorsair.com, click on the 'Living Legends' section abd under the Gerry Beck #310 Corsair there is a photo by Doug Fisher of a Corsair in storage that is a former Wally McDonald machine....maybe this is what you guys are looking for.

Mark

I think that page needs some serious updating, although I'm not volunteering....

corsair166b · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:46 pm

Well, actually, we DO have a whole mess of updates and a new look for all the Corsairs on the 'Living Legends' page but they are being fine tuned by the website designer now-we had quite an excellent crew working on the Corsair info this time around including Jim Sullivan, Rob Mears, Richard Allnutt, Peter Guyton (son of Corsair test pilot Boone) myself and a number of other folks chipping in their two cents towards each Corsair that we could dig up a significant history to.....eventually it will all show up on the site (we'll make a big noise when it does) and hopefully you folks will want to stop by frequently!!

Mark

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

Great! Let us know. Looks like a cool site.

zorro7 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:07 pm **Posts:** 483

F4U-folks:

Now the question to ask is: Do we know the real ID of Buno 97142 & the Pensacola Museum Buno 97349?

Wilson · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:25 pm

I remember a Corsair in Mojave in the late 1970's/early 1980's, but it wasn't at the airport. It was on the other side of Highway 14 and the Southern Pacific Railroad yard from McDonald's. It would have been on "I" Street. It had a four bladed prop and faced McDonald's.

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2635

corsair166b wrote:

Just to chip this in....on the website that I contribute to, http://www.f4ucorsair.com, click on the 'Living Legends' section abd under the Gerry Beck #310 Corsair there is a photo by Doug Fisher of a Corsair in storage that is a former Wally McDonald machine....maybe this is what you guys are looking for.

Mark

This is most likely the -5, notice the canopy bump on top of fuselage. http://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairr ... 24447.html

From Rob Mears post in http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... f=3&t=7649

"The disassembled plane was BuNo.124447 which at the time was owned by either Bill Vartanian. At the time it was just one of the recent Hollywood Wings recoveries that had been purchased by Vartanian and placed in storage at the Aero Sport hangar in Chino. It was sold a couple of years later to Glen Hyde, after which it was restored and flown to Oshkosh in 1987 where it won an award for best Navy Fighter. I spent that entire week at EAA with Hyde, his buddies, and the Corsair, keeping the vigil and polishing the plane, etc. I was seventeen at the time and loving every minute of it."

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2635

zorro7 wrote:

F4U-folks:

Now the question to ask is: Do we know the real ID of Buno 97142 & the Pensacola Museum Buno 97349?

97142 - http://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairr ... 97142.html
Maybe the confusion is "Displayed as 97349/WR-18".

97349 - http://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairr ... 97349.html
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... =&ss=0j0j2

RobC · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:24 pm

Richard Vartanian, not Bill

zorro7 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:07 pm **Posts:** 483

F4U Folks:

Found a similar B/W F4U-1A/FG-1D with a 3 blade propeller taken at MacDill AFB, c. Jan-75. Reg N46WB.The numbers below the cockpit do match, poss the same aircraft?? Hope to see other/better angles of this mystery Corsair! Tks

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2635

zorro7 wrote:

F4U Folks:

Found a similar B/W F4U-1A/FG-1D with a 3 blade propeller taken at MacDill AFB, c. Jan-75. Reg N46WB.The numbers below the cockpit do match, poss the same aircraft?? Hope to see other/better angles of this mystery Corsair! Tks

This is FG-1D 92508 when owned by the Whittington Brothers.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairr ... 92508.html

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