Quonset Point Naval Air Station – August 18, 1943, (#2)
F4U Corsair
US Navy Photo
At 10:50 a.m. on the morning of August 18, 1943, a British Royal Navy F4U Corsair, (Bu. No. JT-143), was landing on runway 34 when the plane ground looped off the tarmac and flipped onto its back. The pilot was not injured.
This was the second such crash in the same day. At 9:50 a.m. an F6f Hellcat had ground looped off runway 28.
Quonset Point NAS – Aug. 18, 1943, (#1)
Source: Quonset Point Crash Log at Providence College Library archives.
