Aviation enthusiasts have been hearing about it all week. Now they’ll get a chance to see it. Selfridge Military Air Museum will host a public unveiling for their newly restored FG-1D Corsair fighter ...
Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...
A Corsair fighter jet hailing from World War II has landed on the Intrepid for the first time in the museum’s history, and is the centerpiece of a new permanent exhibition that tells the story of the ...
On June 12, 1943, the F4U-1 Corsair fighter crashed into the lake near Waukegan during practice landings and takeoffs from the USS Wolverine. The pilot, Carl Harold Johnson, survived the crash but was ...
The moment you walk onto the hangar deck of the Intrepid Museum, there it is — a newly restored World War II FG-1D Corsair fighter-bomber. Corsairs were among the most flown aircraft from the flight ...
Keegan Chetwynd walked through the museum hangar doors Monday toward what is perhaps America’s most legendary fighter plane. He looped around the tail, strolling up the portside, stopping underneath ...
They won’t be handing out cigars. But you can bet the team at Selfridge Military Air Museum in Harrison Township will be celebrating the unveiling of their new baby — a beautifully restored FG-1D ...
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (KTIV) - Dozens of people turned out at Siouxland Freedom Park to watch the plane’s arrival, and it certainly was a sight to see. The A-7-D Corsair II fighter jet saw service ...
SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- A historic A-7D Corsair II fighter jet landed at its final home, Siouxland Freedom Park, on Tuesday afternoon.