156748 - United States Navy (TA-7C Corsair II)

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Aircraft Details

Frame Details
Serial0E-015
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First Flight
ModelTA-7C Corsair II
StatusWritten-off
CommentsA-7C mod to TA-7C; w/o 21.11.1979 crashed while simulating close air support for troops in field training at Fort Irwin, CA; a/c suffered a catastrophic engine failure & exploded in mid-air, so fast that the wing-tips blew off & the plane inverted, scattering wreckage over a mile with the engine continuing another several hundred feet beyond the debris field (with VX-5);
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Not Seen It! 156748 United States Navy Unknown Written-off

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SIGHTINGS

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02/10/1974 - OFF - Warthog1
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