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Mark Nankivil
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Greetings All -

A number of years ago, I had the chance to scan the slides of my friend, Bill Asbell. The slides are from the mid-'60s and I've not come acorss any info ont hese two aircraft. Any one have any ideas?

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Corsair:

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairr ... 92399.html

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http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p39-p63r ... 11719.html

Interesting shots Mark, thanks for posting (and welcome to the WIX)
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Isnt that the only King Cobra? :?:

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Cool Paint!

Is this the same airplane? Did Cavanaugh change the scheme?

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No, it 's the only F model Kingcobra.

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Greetings -

Thanks Mike - you're fast!

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Cool Paint!

Is this the same airplane? Did Cavanaugh change the scheme?

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That one shows F4U-1C, I believe the other is an FG-1D.
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That one shows F4U-1C, I believe the other is an FG-1D.

Just because it says 'F4U-1C' on the tail doesn't necessarily mean it is one! :wink:
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Registered as a FG-1D, but aren't those F4U-5 wings?

F4U-1C had long barrel 20's and Goodyear never built C's
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I imagine these photos are from the days the pair was owned by Al George of Atlanta, GA. Pretty cool to have your own style scheme on your planes. Does anyone know if George's P-51D ever wore the same type paint job? I have seen it in both a black and a white paint job.

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Very cool paint job! Not to crazy but very unique!
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BuNo.93399 lost its wings within a year of that photo being taken. It ground-looped during takeoff.

Harry Doan matched it with a pair of (NOS) F4U-5 wings during the 1970's, then Vintage Fighters restored it to fly in that configuration during the 1990's.

I always hoped someone would play up the cannon-armed angle and transform it into an F4U-1C. 8)

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T J Johansen wrote:
I imagine these photos are from the days the pair was owned by Al George of Atlanta, GA. Pretty cool to have your own style scheme on your planes. Does anyone know if George's P-51D ever wore the same type paint job? I have seen it in both a black and a white paint job.


you refer to N6357T / 44-73693 that later went down south and became FAS-408 ? will check....

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PhantomAce08 wrote:
That one shows F4U-1C, I believe the other is an FG-1D.

Just because it says 'F4U-1C' on the tail doesn't necessarily mean it is one! :wink:


True... I've been wondering about that actually. I thought that if they painted a plane in a scheme that was an F4U-1C, they would at least still keep the FG-1D on the back, but evidently not. So is the only way to tell would be to look at the BuAer No.?

It is interesting that on their site, it shows it as a Goodyear FG-1C Corsair. Also, when did get get painted at #19?
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A beautiful paint job but totally incorrect has VMF-112 only flew F4Fs and F4U-1s. Neither VMF-112 and Archie Donohue never flew F4U-1Cs
A major Japanese attack against Guadalcanal occurred on 13 May 1943. It was intercepted near the Russells by fifteen CORSAIRs of VMF-112 and -124. In the fight that followed, fifteen Japanese aircraft were destroyed in exchange for the loss of three American fighters. The high scorer of the engagement was Captain Archie Donahue of the Wolfpack, who destroyed four ZEROs. Added to the single kill he recorded the previous November, Donahue became the squadron's first CORSAIR ace.

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