The following video shows a civilian registered F4U-1 (NX83782), the oldest airworthy Corsair in the world, during the 2012 Planes of Fame Air Show fly by.

STRATFORD -- For the past six years, a team of about a dozen volunteers have been engaged in restoring the Chance-Vought F4U Corsair that used to sit atop a pedestal in front of Sikorsky Memorial ...

Among them was the Vought F4U Corsair, one of the most common fighters in the skies over the Pacific during the war years, and later above Korea. Having entered service in 1940 as a mostly carrier ...

The first fighter to fly with the 18-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine, the Vought F4U Corsair was also, not coincidentally, the first U.S. fighter to exceed 400 mph in level flight.

Yocum, an alumnus of Savannah College of Art and Design, was able to record a real 1950 F4U Corsair, making it period-correct. “It was important for us to get authentic sound to feel the weight ...

But the real king of the skies over the Pacific Ocean was the Vought F4U Corsair. It was a veritable hotrod of a fighter plane, and with a top speed of 446 miles per hour, it was briefly the ...