Vought F4U-4 Corsair VMF-214 Korea

Korean War F4U-4 Corsair VMF-214 airplane model. The Chance-Vought F4U-4 is an improved model of the famous F4U-1 Corsair, which was introduced to combat units in December 1944. It featured improved agility, climb rate, top speed at altitude and at sea level and an improved cockpit lay-out with a new canopy. Over 2400 examples of this '4-Hog' were built between 1944 and 1953. The aircraft primarily saw action in WW2 and Korea, flown by the USN and USMC. The F4U-4 was used during the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns and on raids over Tokyo. Later it became the primary fighter-bomber of the USN and was massively used during the Korean War, where one F4U-4B even shot down a MiG-15 jet fighter! F4U's dropped the most bombs during WW2 and the Korean War, as fighter bombers. Yep, that's more than the P-47's did in Europe and is indeed a lot of explosives. The F4U-4 also shot down over 100 Kamikaze suicide bombers during the later months of WW2 in the Pacific. 

After the Korean War the F4U-4's were used as advanced trainer aircraft in the US reserve units, but El Honduras still used the F4U-4 together with F4U-5(N)'s in the so-called 'Soccer War' in 1969, where Corsairs shot down an additional 3 enemy aircraft.

Scale 1/24. Wingspan 19 inches, Length 15 inches.