Vought Factory coming down??

Don Martin · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:11 pm

Hey Jerry, If The Good Colonel had his way, would have that pole-siting Corsair sequestered up here in the Republic of Maine right now! You don't know what it took to convince Rob that a whole Corsair WOULD NOT fit on the roof of a Dodge Caravan! :shock:

..............And I also want to say the event was just great! My son and I thoroughly enjoyed your event.
Don

Rob Mears · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:00 pm

Ronnie Olsthurn forwarded me the weblink below. It's the original F4U-1 Checkout film, with special guest star, the Vought hangar seen during the first few scenes.

It will surely be Bridgeport's loss to have this icon torn down for commercial reasons. Too bad they couldn't find a way to integrate it into their future plans.

P.S. - Only the US Government could find a way to somehow spend six million dollars a year to maintain a vacant hangar!!! :shock:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 2454&q=f4u

FAH 619 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:10 pm

Col. Rohr:
The ID plate of the CT Bird. FG-1D 92460, C/N 3721. The mod plates on the wings may have different data.Photo J.S via c/w.com

Rob Mears · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:36 pm

That's a great image Carlos.

Is this yet another plate still on file with the FAS?

FAH 619 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:04 pm

Rob:

Tks! One more pic for your F4U best seller! In answer to your question no. This one came up fm a private US collector. Our TX friend F.A may have the other shots of FAS FG-1D ID plates still MIA!

FAS Museum still holds the ID plate for FG-1D Buno 67071 poss FAS 204! Still working on FAH 609! -)

FAH 619 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:15 pm

Rob:

Cockpit ID plate of F4U-4 Buno 97388 XFAH 610. Bridgeport, Ct. 2005. Photo Jaldo via C/w.com.

corsair166b · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:14 pm

Someone might wanna alert Gerry Beck that they found the data plate off of his F4U-4......since that's where it came from (one of the last Vought/Connecticut Corsairs built)....

M

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:46 am

robb, i probably can get a shot of bob oddegaards corsair data plate what have you, as my best friend was a consultant in his cleveland air racer restoration. just let me know, & i'll contact my buddy. best, tom

FAH 619 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:21 pm

F4U Folks:

The Id plate pictured above of Buno 97388 X FAH 610 is a poss duplicate/restored cockpit plate. For some reason, before they were exported south by Mr. Bob Bean c. 1958... the main cockpit ID plates were removed. C/w.com

t6flier · **Joined:** Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:36 pm **Posts:** 73

Ok Guys,
Mark Tisler who built this airplane is sitting here with me laughing. That IS the dataplate from Gerry Becks Corsair as it is the one they recieved with the project from Earl Ware and it is an original.
Cheers!
Mike Vadeboncoeur

FAH 619 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:53 am

AT6 Flier:

Rg! Interesting data/info.

Does he has pics of the ID plate as found? c 1980s? If that is the case FAH 610 may be exception of all the recovered FAH F4U fuselages! Doing more cking. Nice restoration job. C/w.com

p.s The famous FAH609 has a "modification plate" at the cockpit rather than the original Chance-Vought F4U ID plate.

Does anyone know if any all the recovered FAH F4U-4/5s had cockpit Id plates? Tks

t6flier · **Joined:** Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:36 pm **Posts:** 73

Mark says that when Gerry purchased FAH 610 he is not sure if the dataplate was removed at the time of shipment to Gerry's for safe keeping with other paperwork or after arrival just prior to work beginning like stripping etc... However Mark did get the dataplate from safe keeping and installed it back on the cockpit rail after the area was painted and the holes lined right up without issue. Of note Gerry owned FAH616 and that dataplate had been hacked out of the cockpit area.
Fun stuff!
Mike

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