Corsair at USS Intrepid

[k5083]

The USS Intrepid's social media this week is all about their "new" FG-1D Corsair. This is on long term loan from the Naval Air Museum or whatever it's called now, I recall seeing it years ago at the Washington Navy Yard. It is now painted in Intrepid markings and looking sharp.

https://intrepidmuseum.org/2025-03-13/i ... n-march-21

https://intrepidmuseum.org/2025-03-20/h ... 1d-corsair

August

[mike furline]

FG-1D BuNo 92013.

https://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsair ... 92013.html
https://www.airhistory.net/photo/484960/92013
https://vintageaviationnews.com/aviatio ... rsair.html

[JohnB]

Nice to see the carrier with an actual carrier type.
Somehow the SR-71 on deck looks wrong.

[Clifford Bossie]

Nice to see the carrier with an actual carrier type.
Somehow the SR-71 on deck looks wrong.

Yeah, the giant dog house on the deck doesn't help either. It is good to see the Corsair added.

[Archer]

Somehow the SR-71 on deck looks wrong.

There's a good reason for that..... it's an A-12!

[JohnB]

I thought it might me, it has been awhile since my visit.
Tough to tell at any distance.
Still, I wonder how many school kids go away thinking the Oxcart family (to be inclusive:) ) flew off carriers?

[Archer]

Bold statement here, but I think that the USS Intrepid museum uses opportunism. Because they are located in a significant location with a lot of tourism footfall and have their own real estate so to speak, they can take on varied but high-profile exhibits. Having those high-profile exhibits (think Concorde, Enterprise, an A-12) means that they get more visitors, it's a win-win situation. They are not trying to be a strictly naval aviation themed museum. If they would go down that route, would they get the same number of visitors? Who can tell...

[mustangdriver]

The USS Intrepid's social media this week is all about their "new" FG-1D Corsair. This is on long term loan from the Naval Air Museum or whatever it's called now, I recall seeing it years ago at the Washington Navy Yard. It is now painted in Intrepid markings and looking sharp.

https://intrepidmuseum.org/2025-03-13/i ... n-march-21

https://intrepidmuseum.org/2025-03-20/h ... 1d-corsair

August

National Naval Aviation Museum

[JohnB]

Bold statement here, but I think that the USS Intrepid museum uses opportunism. Because they are located in a significant location with a lot of tourism footfall and have their own real estate so to speak, they can take on varied but high-profile exhibits. Having those high-profile exhibits (think Concorde, Enterprise, an A-12) means that they get more visitors, it's a win-win situation. They are not trying to be a strictly naval aviation themed museum. If they would go down that route, would they get the same number of visitors? Who can tell...

Absolutely.
The ship is a tourist attraction as much (perhaps more) than a naval, aviation or naval aviation museum.
It's pretty clear from the displays and the target audience.
I don't think they have ever shied away from that. Nothing wrong with that.
And you can almost attribute that same "attraction" mentality to many other aviation museums...the NASM and the Seattle Museum of Flight come to mind.

If you want to get deep into warbirds, you pretty much have to go to the smaller warbird centric collections, especially the flying collections.