Subject: Re: F4U-1D Corsair
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: "Ken Spears" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:31:09 -0800

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ken Spears 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 8:56 AM
  Subject: F4U-1D Corsair

  Hi Steve, I took these photos on June 26, 2001 in the Confederate Air Force hanger in Lancaster Texas. The restored Corsair was originally an FG-1D built by Goodyear. After the employees of Chance Vought (now Northrup Grumman) restored this Corsair, it was given the designation of F4U-1D. For many years it flew with a checker board nose and the number 13 on the side. It has been recently repainted in the color scheme of VMF-312 the Checkerboards. According to the Checkerboards web site http://www.f4ucorsair.com/corsairpage/312.html 1st Lt. M. O. Chance flew Corsair 530.
   
  I noticed that the site that you list as F4U-1D is actually an F4U-4.
   
  You have my permission to use these photos.
   
  Ken Spears
  Arlington Texas
  (817) 261-3403