Update Information December 2021 Classic Jets Fighter Museum will close at midday on ------------------------------------------- 11 September 2019 We have now relocated to South Australia 10am to 3pm 6 Days a week. Closed on Tuesdays
Chance Vought F4U-1 Corsair 02270 The Classic Jets Fighter Museum has salvaged an F4U-1 S/N 02270, from Vanuatu, where it force landed in a lagoon, near Quoin Hill fighter strip on the 5 th May 1944. The Corsair’s pilot Captain James Vittitoe escaped uninjured. The Corsair’s machine guns were salvaged the next day and the aircraft was then abandoned. The restoration of this magnificent fighter aircraft is by far the Museum’s most ambitious and challenging project. Five Corsair crash sites have supplied many hard to find components for the project. However the loaning to the Museum of several airworthy airframe modules, to build jigs around, enabled the construction of new modules as part of the Corsair buildup. Utilising specific airframe stations as datum points, along with volunteer ingenuity, enabled the construction of the large and complicated fuselage section. With most major components constructed, the Corsair restoration project has now moved to the assembly of the aircraft and can be viewed undergoing this process in the Museum’s Restoration Facility, Hangar 107. Anderson Drive
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