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 Post subject: What Corsair Is This????
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With the chin-scoop arrangement, it is either a -4 or -7 corsair. However, the antenna arrangement is one I've only seen on -7 corsairs. This most likely makes it Bu.133704 during its days outside at the Alabama memorial. The location area looks about right, but I am unsure of the concrete plinth it is mounted on. Was she ever mounted this way? Cool picture none the less, and thanks for sharing!

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I agree, at the USS Alabama. (I have a similar pic from 83-84)

It is a -7, it has the raised canopy (or lack of)

They had (have) a F6F and P-51 in similar state on cement and in salt air.
The OS2U was on the catapult.


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Jack, here is the same aircraft in the same position with a coat of paint. Taken on 3 July 1974 by John R. Kerr

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What a shame. Vintage aircraft outside in the salt air...in a hurricane prone area. :cry:

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Then of course there was the plane's complete submersion in salt water during Katrina.ImageImage

Any idea what date that photo was taken Jack?

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Per article in lastest "AC" this Corsair is actually the last surviving AU-1...


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Tom Crawford wrote:
Per article in lastest "AC" this Corsair is actually the last surviving AU-1...


If AC said this, then they are incorrect. It is indeed the F4U-7, now housed indoors (with the salt water bath) at the Alabama Museum in Mobile, Alabama.

There are no known AU-1 survivors. This aircraft has merely been painted to represent one. The chin-scoop on the aircraft is a dead give-away that it is not an AU-1. There is a single scoop at bottom of the nose cowling, like the -4 and -7, rather than the covered-over "chipmunk-like" jowls of the AU-1... I always thought, rather comically, that the AU-1 looked like a chipmunk who'd stuffed both cheeks with nuts... silly, I know, but there you go!

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Interesting.....Thanks, Tom


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