Navy Corsair Ace Ira Kepford (16 confirmed victories), yet our plane was painted to represent a later F4U-1D onboard Visiting Corsair aficionado has noted that the #29 on our plane belongs to Top Tallichet owned more than 100 aircraft, including the B-17 used in the movie Replicas, similar to ours, also made by Tallichet’s company. įilms like "Pearl Harbor" and "Collateral Damage" used Was bought by the Tri-State Warbird Museum. Restore the plane but this did not happen and it remained in storage until it The Corsair was sold to well-known collector Butch Schroeder who intended to Was slowly deteriorating until 1994 in outside storage at David Tallichet's Tallichet Corsair BuNo 92106/N6897 (the TV show was called "Black Sheep
Television series "Baa, Baa Blacksheep" from 1976 to 1978 along with another Inġ973, the Corsair was obtained by David Tallichet and later used in the popular The aircraft was put onĭisplay as US Navy "29" at Ed's first facility in Claremont, California. Maloney for his fledgling "The Air Museum ". Particular Corsair was obtained shortly after being surplused in 1958 by Ed We restore this aircraft, we will be conserving a lot of the interior toīuNo 92132, N3466G at The Tri-State Warbird Museum "Even though it flew with a civilian registration, it was never fullyĬivilianized and thus has a lot of its original equipment still installed. Is an amazing time capsule," stated museum director Paul Redlick. The original BuNo 92132 was bought in 2003 by the Tri-State Warbird Museum in Batavia, Ohio. Still in the process of repairing and "detailing it." This now becomes a tale of two Corsairs.Ĭorsair when it was on display at the 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant In December 2007 and installed it on a pylon at the airport on June 27, 2009. We dismantled and moved it to the airport This model wasĭisplayed for many years outside a 94th Aero Squadron Taken from Goodyear-built Corsair BuNo 92132, N3466G, manufacturers construction number 3393. Were able to read a number embossed on the tail that confirmed the mold was Molds from the real airplane – you can count every rivet & dzus fastener. They were able to capture all the surface detail when they made
The replica was made by a company also owned by David TallichetĮspecially for his Specialty Restaurants business to be displayed outside his World War II themed Of an actual Corsair which was owned by David Tallichet’s Military Aircraft RestorationĬompany. Our Corsair is a full, life-size fiberglass replica (The white vertical tail stripe is the ID for Intrepid aircraft) Kepford was land based on Bougainville in But the #29 is most famous as the aircraft number of Top Navy Corsair Ace Is painted to represent a Navy Corsair of fighter squadron VF-10 "GRIM REAPERS"Įssex class carrier USS Intrepid (CV11) during the invasion of Okinawa, Aprilġ945. Navy designation FG-1D Manufactured by Goodyear Navy designation F4U-1D Manufactured by Chance Vought
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