Picture taken at Luc sur Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France on 2005-07-17 during an aerobatic show
HISTORY
F4U-4
Bu # 97264
c/n 9418
Status: Airworthy
accepted: 22 October 1945
Stored: 1945-1949
assigned: VMF-223 (January 1950-July 1950)
assigned: VMF-225 (November 1950 – January 1952)
assigned: VMF-211 (January 1952-April 1953)
assigned: VMAT-332 (April 1953-November 1953)
assigned: VMAT-332 (November 1953-January 1954)
assigned: NART St. Louis (July 1953-February 1955)
assigned: NART Olathe (October 1955-June 1956)
SOC: October 1956 – NAS Litchfield Park
Owned: Robert Bean, Hereford, Arizona (1959-1973)
Registered: N5218V
Painted: K 11
Owned: Pacific Warbirds Museum, Half Moon Bay, California (1973-1977)
Owned: Eugene H. Akers, San Diego, California (1977-1994)
Painted: A 403 (VF-142 Ghostriders - USS Boxer)
Owned: Charles R. Hall, Pinedale, WY (April 1994-1996)
Painted: B 210 (VF-192 The Golden Dragons - USS Princeton)
Owned: Corsair Warbird Ltd, Dijon-Longvic, France (1996 - 2008)
Registered: F-AZVJ
Owned: Dan Friedkin, Houston, TX (2008 - current)
Registered: N10DF
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0truetrue
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
Corsair F4U-4 Navy Picture taken at Luc sur Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France on 2005-07-17 during an aerobatic show Author: Tristan Nitot {{GFDL}} {{cc-by-sa-2.5}}