F4U Disposals
Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:04 pm
F4U Folks:
Good day!
Found this pic of some F4Us being disposed in an ukn area for now. Tail code Z #41
p.s 2nd pic being unloaded/loaded ukn area AEC.
Good day!
Found this pic of some F4Us being disposed in an ukn area for now. Tail code Z #41
p.s 2nd pic being unloaded/loaded ukn area AEC.
Re: F4U Disposals
Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:15 pm
zorro9 wrote:p.s 2nd pic being unloaded/loaded ukn area AEC.
Hi Z.!
The second photo was published in the Squadron/Signal Aicraft No. 29 "Corsair in Action" withe the following text:
I have seen a photo of another Corsair with overpainted insignia titled: "An F4U-1A Corsair aircraft of the USMC, a combat veteran aircraft, is unloaded off the USS Bismarck Sea (CV-95) off Muga Beach, CA 1944". Here it is:
As for the Corsairs in the first picture, I guess the tail letter Z was assigned to the a/c of the Naval Air Reserve in Squantum.
Cheers!
Re: F4U Disposals
Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:30 pm
C-22:
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Tks for the info & data. The Z41 F4Us belong poss to USS Shangri-La CV-18. It took place somewhere in the S. Pacific. c.1945.
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Tks for the info & data. The Z41 F4Us belong poss to USS Shangri-La CV-18. It took place somewhere in the S. Pacific. c.1945.
Re: F4U Disposals
Sun Sep 22, 2013 10:22 pm
What a shame to see those planes just thrown away like that..... I wish they would have disposed of them on my land for me to stumble across in modern times... Me owning one Corsair 
Me owning three 
Me owning three
Re: F4U Disposals
Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:38 pm
IIRC the first photo shows Corsairs flooded due to a monsoon (China 45?), not pushed from a carrier.
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Re: F4U Disposals
Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:07 pm
F4U- Folks:
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No monsoon season here with the downloading of the FG-1A F4Us! I remember a previous picture in Wix fm another angle showing several F4Us on barges. These 2 aren't going to a Navy Reserve base. They are heading for disposal somewhere in the area as the U.S markings show.
Good day!
No monsoon season here with the downloading of the FG-1A F4Us! I remember a previous picture in Wix fm another angle showing several F4Us on barges. These 2 aren't going to a Navy Reserve base. They are heading for disposal somewhere in the area as the U.S markings show.
Re: F4U Disposals
Tue Sep 24, 2013 1:37 pm
Wonder if those off Muga, CA are still there
Re: F4U Disposals
Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:27 pm
"Muga" is Point Mugu. It's been a Navy base since WWII. Those are the Santa Monica Mountains in the background. During the war it was used as a Seabee training area. Hard to say what the Corsairs were for. It may have been something as simple as training Seabees how to load and unload aircraft from barges onto the beach. To my knowledge there was no overhaul facility. The photos of the Corsairs in the water is somewhere else.
Re: F4U Disposals
Wed Sep 25, 2013 7:16 pm
Aircraft Disposal Folks:
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It looks like thousand of aircraft were disposed of or left behind/abandoned in the Philippines, Guam, or simply nearby islands became graveyards. Australia has found a stash off the coast of Brisbane. New Zealand had c. 1960s had several thousand aircraft all over the island.
Plz ck the latest Warbirds Issue of October/November 2013 for NZ graveyard details. It's worth the price. To my surprise, some of the FG-1As samples were x UK orders.
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It looks like thousand of aircraft were disposed of or left behind/abandoned in the Philippines, Guam, or simply nearby islands became graveyards. Australia has found a stash off the coast of Brisbane. New Zealand had c. 1960s had several thousand aircraft all over the island.
Plz ck the latest Warbirds Issue of October/November 2013 for NZ graveyard details. It's worth the price. To my surprise, some of the FG-1As samples were x UK orders.