Tucked inside the headquarters building of the MAPS Air Museum in Green, volunteers are restoring an Akron-built Corsair, one of the U.S. military's most successful and powerful fighters in World War ...

The Vought F4U Corsair plane restored by the late Gerry Beck is on display in the Fargo Air Museum on Thursday, May 18, 2023, after being in a Minnesota air museum for the last six years. FARGO — An ...

Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...

JEROME, Idaho • Fewer than 40 of the 12,571 Corsair warplanes churned out in the U.S. during World War II and the Korean War are airworthy today. One sits in a hangar at Jerome County Airport, its ...

STRATFORD -- The blue Chance Vought F4U Corsair that graced the entrance to Sikorsky Memorial Airport should never return to its pedestal, according to those restoring the vintage aircraft, because ...

Planes of Fame Air Museum welcomes 2026 with the return to flight of its historic F4U-1A Corsair on January 3, featuring talks, exhibits, and a possible flyover by the freshly restored WWII veteran.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (CBS) - A World War II plane is back on dry land, after sitting at the bottom of Lake Michigan for nearly 70 years. The Birdcage Corsair plane was built in the 1930s, and crashed during ...

STRATFORD -- The long-neglected Curtiss hangar at Sikorsky Memorial Airport, which has seen the likes of Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, may yet have its best days ahead. The reason is the ...

Fighter planes get all the love. There's not much argument about that. Most people will tell you that World War Two's greatest American navy aircraft was the F6F Hellcat or the F4-U Corsair. But what ...

JEROME — A vintage aircraft didn’t quite make it off the runway at the Jerome County Airport on Tuesday morning. Jerome County Sheriff’s Office responded to the crash of the 1950s-era F4U Corsair with ...

On June 12, 1943, the F4U-1 Corsair fighter crashed into the lake near Waukegan during practice landings and takeoffs from the USS Wolverine. The pilot, Carl Harold Johnson, survived the crash but was ...