These walk-around photos were taken at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California in 2017. They show a Vought F4U-1A Corsair, civil registration NX83782, BuNo 17799 — the world's oldest airworthy Corsair, and an aircraft with a remarkably varied life story spanning combat service, Hollywood and decades on the airshow circuit. The F4U Corsair's distinctive inverted gull wing was a direct consequence of its enormous Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine, which demanded the largest propeller then fitted to a fighter — a solution that required the wing to be cranked downward to give the undercarriage adequate ground clearance without excessively long legs. The result was one of the fastest and most capable carrier fighters of the war, feared by Japanese pilots who nicknamed it "Whistling Death." Built in 16 variants with a production run lasting from 1942 to 1953, over 12,500 Corsairs were manufactured — the longest production run of any American piston-engined fighter. BuNo 17799 was built at Vought's Stratford, Connecticut plant and accepted by the US Navy on 31 August 1943. It served in the Pacific with several squadrons including VBF-14 and VBF-98, seeing combat before being struck from the inventory in August 1945. It was subsequently acquired by MGM Studios for use as a film prop — in a film that was never made — and sat deteriorating on the studio backlot until rescued in 1970 by Ed Maloney's Air Museum in Ontario, California. Restored to airworthy condition by 1977, it appeared in the TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep in 1978 and has been a flagship of the Planes of Fame collection ever since.