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Tell that to the guys who painted it that way :lol:



It uses the the MkIV because the actual aircraft has the shortened wings.
It also features a the 'angry duck' which is known to have been painted on 3 RNZAF Corsairs.
It SHOULD be in all Dark Sea Blue with late/post war RNZAF Roundels but that wouldn't look as interesting to the general public.

If this picture of a real corsair is of a F4U-1D or F3A-1D or FG-1D (note one piece sliding canopy without the two upper frames) it is in the clean condition missing its rocket rails. Maybe this is a restored F4U-1A or F3A-1A or FG-1A fitted with a F4U-1D canopy. The -1A had a blown canopy, but still had two frames on the upper part of the sliding canopy. The -1A is not an official designation used by Vought. They still designated them F4U-1.

In this picture this aircraft is also painted in the tri-color camouflage common to the F4U-1A. Also of note is the red border of the national insignia, which was a short lived version from approximately Aug 43 to Feb 44 on F4U-1 and F4U-1A corsairs, when the red was replaced by blue, the F4U-1D did not enter combat until approximately Dec 44 therefore never had the red outline on the star and bar. This picture has the VF-17 "Jolly Rogers" nose art. F4U-1A "White 8" was flown by Lt. j. g. Earl May of VF-17 and by January 44 at Bougainville had lost its red border around the star and bar replaced by blue.

Lastly looking at this picture this plane appears to have the normal wing tips (rounded) found on US versions of the Corsair not the squared wing tip found on the Fleet Air Arm Corsair Mk II or Corsair Mk III/IV.