Warplanes brings and introduces you a finely handcrafted F4U-1 Corsair USN airplane model made of the finest grade materials which underwent stages of meticulous and careful sanding, carving and modeling to its original form. Our highly skilled master craftsmen painstakingly and passionately worked on the F4U-1 Corsair USN scale model airplane’s details, ensuring exactness and precision based on the original airplane.
F4U-1 Corsair USN History:
Known as one of the greatest combat aircraft during the WWII, the Vought F4U-1 Corsair was first flew on May 29, 1940. The carrier-capable fighter aircraft saw service in World War II and the Korean War. The prototype was the first single engined US warplane to exceed 400 mph and outperformed all other American aircraft at that time.
Some 12,571 Corsairs came off the production line, the last being built in 1952. The Corsair entered service with the RNZAF in 1944. By this time the Japanese Navy & Army Air Forces had ceased to exist so the Corsair was modified to the ground attack role, dropping up to two 1000lb bombs as well as depth charges. Depth charges exploding over the ground at ground level did not dig a hole before they exploded but rather cleared everything within quite a large radius. The RNZAF operated 424 Corsairs in the Pacific and New Zealand, losing 17 to enemy action and 150 in accidents, not an uncommonly high figure. Of these aircraft, there is only one Kiwi Corsair still flying. Based in Masterton, it is owned and operated by the Old Stick and Rudder Company.
*Alteration on the design such as change of paint schemes and markings or embodied features on our models occurs at any time. Detachable stand is included with the model which may vary from the photo.
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