Historical F4U Corsair

The Historical F4U Corsair is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by the Historical Aircraft Corporation of Nucla, Colorado. The aircraft is a 60% scale replica of the original Chance-Vought F4U Corsair and when it was available was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The aircraft features a cantilever low gull wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, retractable conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from welded steel tubing covered in a shell of polyurethane foam and fiberglass. Its 24.80 ft span wing, mounts flaps and has a wing area of 127.5 sqft. The cockpit width is 21 in. The standard engine used is the 230 hp Ford Motor Company V-6 automotive conversion powerplant.

The aircraft has a typical empty weight of 1405 lb and a gross weight of 2004 lb, giving a useful load of 599 lb. With full fuel of 45 u.s.gal the payload for pilot and baggage is 329 lb.

The aircraft has fairly lengthy runway requirements with a standard day sea level take-off distance of 1200 ft and a landing distance of 1500 ft.

The kit included prefabricated assemblies, the engine and scale fixed pitch propeller, instruments and avionics. The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 2000 hours.