Another warbird lost

"Kingfish" wrote in message
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On Feb 18, 1:32 am, "vlado" wrote:
Kingfish:
This aircraft was not a stock F4U by any means. It was not even a
factory built aircraft. It did not posses a serial number from the
manufacturer or Navy. This airframe was built completely from spare
parts and many custom made parts. Thus, as an airframe, it had no
history. If this helps your regret..............

Interesting, vlado. Where'd that info come from? I'm curious. Did that
plane have the R-4360 engine or the R-2800? Although, even without a
NSN it's still a Corsair (right?) - albeit without any military combat
history. Considering how many F4Us are airworthy these days, the loss
of even a flying parts kit still bums me out.

Gerald added: For these warbirds, I'm guessing most are probably in the
Experimental
category so probably the dataplate doesn't mean too much other than from
the historical perspective but that is a pure guess.

IIRC all warbirds are Experimentals because no civilian type
certificate ever existed for them.

The aircraft was powered by an R-4360. This crash happened in 1994...

I would guess that there are more flying Corsairs today than there were
then, due to various restoration project coming to fruition. In today's
high dollar warbird scene, it is economically feasable to restore (or
remanufacture) projects that were not viable projects 10 or 20 years ago.

KB