Image: F4U 7 AND CORSAIR 11

Description: Lynn Garrison in his Vought F4U-7 Corsair (BuNo 133693) leading LTV A-7A-4a-CV Corsair II fighters (BuNo 153168, 153174, 153175) of U.S. Navy Attack Squadron VA-147 Argonauts over Naval Air Station Lemoore, California (USA), on 7 July 1967 before their first deployment to Vietnam aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CVA-61). The A-7A "NE-300" is the aircraft of the Air Group Commander (CAG) of Attack Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2). The A-7A 153175 suffered an engine failure over the Gulf of Tonkin on 31 October 1968. The pilot ejected and was rescued. The F4U-7 133693 had been delivered to the Aéronavale (French naval air service, s/n 692) in 1952. It was returned to the MAAG office in the US Embassy Paris. Lynn Garrison purchased this aircraft through the MAAG office in 1964. At that time he founded the Air Museum of Canada. Garrison moved to California where he formed the American Aerospace Museum and registered the Corsair with this organization. as N693M The plane finally crashed and was destroyed near Brown Field, San Diego, California, on 10 May 1987.
Title: F4U 7 AND CORSAIR 11
Credit: Lynn Garrison
Author: US Navy
Permission: PD
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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