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wow from the photos it looked like I was transported back in time to a maiden flight love it awesome.

will not hear that noise ever again my uncle from NZ was a pilot there and made it onto the BRIT carriers with the F4U and survived the war to return to NZ with a samuri sword that he got out of a kamikaze attack plane on his deck.thanks JEM

awesome stuff mick the royal navy and the KIWIS painted the center of the markings that are white in your photos to red when they became operational got to love aussie WW2 history thanks mick.

very nice and very rare whats the donk is it original or close to it ?

yes no injuries and a savable aircraft. just a big bill for someone.

ok thanks rotor can I ask you if you are a SPAA member if not join up and join the aussie seaplane community to get all the latest seaplane news in AUS there are six of us SPAA members on the ICON order list so be lucky number 7 come on.

thanks for that info JEM the pieces of the history puzzle are getting clearer.

what you can sell them for and what you can fly with at an airshow are 2 different things certification wise this is WW2 stuff you cant just order a new prop from Hamilton standard like for a Cessna cirrus piper. etc. would be good to have at time machine with a flux capacitor to go back and buy the CORSAIRS and MUSTANGS that they were selling as scrap for $300

thanks for that info mick really appreciate it I zoomed the pics and the markings on those CORSAIRS are the same as what was on the NZ CORSAIRS on the british carriers maybe NZ did not have a suitable runway for carrier practice or maybe the brits cant find NZ bro hey.

Hey rotor don't spose you saved any of the survey on your comp I thought of it after and tried to go back in and access was closed in typical ICON style.

Yes John there is only 1 there aswell the NZ navy flew them off the British carriers in WW2 strange hey. it was the Brits who actually mastered the deck landing technique before the US navy. in Australia we never had any CORSAIRS only Mustangs P51 Kittyhawk P40 Spitfires and Boomerangs for WW2.

I would say so BEN being the only 1 down under it was sourced from the Honduran Air force and is painted still in their colours there are youtube vids of it flying at Point cook and its home at Tyab.

ICON recently sent to everyone on order list a survey/questionnaire which I found strange with questions like--what do you think is a fair price for the A5? what is the maximum price that would stop you from buying the A5? and then there was some more intrusive bordering on offensive questions-- what is your occupation? what is your income per year? what is your net worth? its like every time they get close to production they find a way to pee off the people they need to survive (the buyers) remember the sale contract 40 pages of head ache and then they announce a 1year delay. what excuse for no production this year? basically the feeling I got was that it was a poke to see how many are going to stay and buy the A5. reality can bite.

Australia's only F4U CORSAIR down and out. a gear up landing at Hunter valley airshow no injuries with repairs approx. $500000 the prop alone is $90000 there is 1 vid on youtube of the incident possibly the only 1 as the F4U was flying on Saturday at 8am before show.

the only F4U CORSAIR in Australia is damaged after a gear up landing at Hunter valley airshow on SAT 28th JAN no injuries with approx. $500000 repair bill the prop alone is $90000 so I guess it will be some time before it flies. there is 1 vid on youtube possibly the only 1 as it was flying before the show on sat at 8am.