Planes of Fame Air Museum welcomes 2026 with the return to flight of its historic F4U-1A Corsair on January 3, featuring ...

AN F4U Corsair will be flying in to Boyington Field on August 13, giving community members a glimpse of one of the famous warbirds that flew during WWII. The Corsair, owned by Ray Thompson and piloted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the early 1940s, factories on most of the world’s continents were busy churning out war machines to aid in the global conflict that had just started. That era was one of incredibly fast ...

In the European Theater of World War II, the P-51 Mustang was the top aircraft when it came to shooting down or otherwise nullifying Axis airpower. In the Pacific, planes like the P-38 Lightning ...

Enclosed in its own hanger at the Bamberg County Airport is one of the U.S.'s greatest fighter planes, a 1945 Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair. One of the few to survive foreign wars, as well as the hungry ...

The F4U Corsair delivered breathtaking twilight flybys that lit up the entire field. As the sun dipped below the horizon, the fighter’s distinctive silhouette and roaring engine created an ...

More than 12,500 examples of this aircraft were manufactured by Vought beginning in 1940, with final delivery of 1953, in what is known as the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U ...

(Columbia) Nov. 10, 2002 - The pilot and owner of the World War II-era fighter plane that crashed in a Midlands subdivision Sunday was an avid air show pilot and a Bamberg businessman. Joseph Tobul, ...

While other kids were counting down the days until their 16th birthday and the freedom delivered by a driver’s license, Chris Avery spent his days at the Tuscaloosa Regional Airport learning to fly ...