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CORSAIR/Bu. 13459
Vought Corsair
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Bureau #: 13459
Construction #: ??
Civil Registration:
  None
   Model: FG-1A Corsair
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2011
History:
Delivered to US Navy as Bu. 13459.
- BOC: January 1944.
- SOC: 1952
Goodyear Aerospace, Akron, OH, 1952-1975.
- Displayed at Goodyear World Of Rubber.
-- Suspended from crane inside Plant B as USN/F-9.
-- Later stored.
- Donated to USMC Museum, 1975.
USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico, VA, 1975-2002.
- Trucked to Mojave, CA for static restoration, February 1975.
- Restoration continued at Chino, CA, 1979-1981.
- Trucked from Chino to El Toro MCAS, CA and barged to Quantico.
- Restoration completed at Quantico.
- Displayed as Bu. 13486/86.
National Museum Of The Marine Corps, Triangle, VA, 2006-2011.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2006.
 Photo Source(s):
James C. Bates
Glenn Cooke via Rob Mears.
Brad Pilgrim
Research Assistance:
Pat Carry
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