Tucked inside the headquarters building of the MAPS Air Museum in Green, volunteers are restoring an Akron-built Corsair, one of the U.S. military's most successful and powerful fighters in World War ...

On July 11, 1940, the only Vought Corsair prototype crash-landed on a Connecticut golf course, nearly ending the program ...

After its rocky start, the Corsair fought in one of WWII’s most lopsided air battles, the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre," ...

In the European Theater of World War II, the P-51 Mustang was the top aircraft when it came to shooting down or otherwise nullifying Axis airpower. In the Pacific, planes like the P-38 Lightning ...

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 ...

AKRON—The Japanese called it "Whistling Death" for the sound its iconic gull wings produced in a dive. U.S. Navy and Marine Corps pilots called it the best air-to-air fighter in the Pacific theater ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- The Intrepid Museum is debuting a new permanent exhibit about a World War II fighter bomber. The aircraft was shot down into the Pacific Ocean after it was ordered to strike a naval base ...

This is a personal case mod project I've wanted to do for a long time. ..A lot of inspiration came from "A Story of a Flying Fortress", a documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, ...

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 ...