F4U-4E and F4U-4N: Developed late in WWII, these nightfighters featured radar radomes projecting from the right wingtip. The -4E was fitted with the APS-4 search radar, while the -4N …

The ASB became a workhorse airborne radar and was installed in a few early F4U-2 night fighter Corsairs as well as torpedo bombers, dive bombers, and patrol planes. In the bombers and …

Just after Pearl Harbor, the Naval Aircraft Factory at Philadelphia began fitting 34 F4U-1 Corsair fighters with an APS-4 radar using an 18-inch parabolic antenna inside a housing on the …

Radar equipped version of the Corsair used by the U.S. Navy in the Pacific. The F4U-1C was a batch of three hundred Corsairs with 4 x 20mm cannons installed for use as a fighter-bomber. …

The mighty and mythical F4U Corsair, from prototype to Super Corsair, has to be one of the most impressive fighter aircraft of the World War 2. A legend ... probably the most successful fighter …

Experimental conversion of the F4U-1 Corsair into a carrier-borne night fighter, armed with five .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns (the outboard, starboard gun was deleted), and fitted with …

Converting the F4U-1 into the F4U-2 night fighter involved the addition of this AIA radar antenna inside of a dome and fairing on the leading edge of the right wing. The small radar was added …

The night fighter equipment found on the F4U- 5N included an ANIAPS- 19 (A) radar set, ANIARC-28-VHF and ANIAPX-2 IFF equipment. The night fighters had an ANIAPN- 1 radio …

In the midst of World War II, on a fateful night in 1943, a lone F4U Corsair aircraft, piloted by Lieutenant Commander Edward "Butch" O'Hare, achieved a groundbreaking feat: the first …

The F4U-5N on display is a night-fighter variant of the F4U-5. As a night-fighter, the F4U-5N had an AN/APS-19 radar on the leading (front) edge of the right wing for tracking targets in the …