F2G-1 Super Corsair Detailed Photo Essay

The F2G Super Corsair was a version of the very successful F4U Corsair but powered by the 28 cylinder Pratt & Whitney 4360 Wasp Major radial producing over 3000 hp. It was optimized as a low level interceptor to counter Japanese Kamikazi suicide bombers being encountered in the latter part of World War two. It was too late to participate in the war and was superseded by the Grumman F8F after the war. The F2G was used with some success in the post war Thompson Trophy Races at Cleveland.

The subject of this monograph is F2G-1 D, Bu. No. 88454 and Reg. No. 4324. It was photographed at the Champlin Fighter Museum, Mesa, AZ between April 1986 and June 1998. It is fully restored in it's actual 1945 colors and markings as tested by the Navy at Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center in Maryland.


by Steve Muth
Peregrine Publishing USA 1999
USN No.1 in a series of booklets featuring 12pp of detail colour photographs, 31 in all, of cockpit, landing gear etc.








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