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Scott - Re: Goodyear display Corsair

Posted by Rob Mears on Wed Jun 25, 2003 02:24:14 PM

I noticed the photo that you added to the main page of the Corsair Registry.

"Jim Harley sent in this image a while ago. It's a FG-1 displayed (currently?) at the Goodyear Corp, Akron, OH.
Does anyone know the serial number of the aircraft that was used for this or is it purely a mock-up?"

This Corsair is currently displayed as you see it in the photo at the "Goodyear World of Rubber Museum" in Akron. The Bureau Number for the plane is 76671.

The cockpit section is mounted on top of a wooden riser, and no one at the museum really knows if any of the center wing section is under there or not. It may just be the cockpit section detached from the main wing.

Also, no one currently at the museum knows where the "plane" came from. I know that Bob Hood and Earl Ware recovered three or four FG-1D center sections from the old NAS Memphis grounds in Millington, Tennessee back during the late-60s / early-70s. The two recovered by Hood have been accounted for, but only one of Earl Ware's. If Ware indeed recovered more than one of them, this might be where it ended up. I used to talk to Earl but his phone number has gone bad over the last few years.

Had this component come from a complete plane, there more than likely would have been more visible documentation of the fact. If I make it through Akron I plan on pulling someone aside for a little journey through their museum records ;)

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