Help with aircraft type, USS Midway Museum Restoration area, NAS North Island

David Moore · Post by **David Moore** » 21 Mar 2022, 15:08

Hi All,

Visible on Google Maps at 32.70822951509778, -117.21632818865666 is the centre and forward fuselage of an aircraft I can't identify. Can any of you help with identifying the type, please?

This was, I believe, seen by me from the boat tour on 04.03.2022.

Thank you very much,

David

frank kramer · Post by **frank kramer** » 21 Mar 2022, 15:21

I'm not that good at google maps, but if you mean the bird next to the F/A-18 in Blue Angels scheme, that's an (almost) complete Vought F7U Cutlass...

Dipstick · Post by **Dipstick** » 21 Mar 2022, 15:40

That's a Cutlass indeed.
Might be prototype F7U-3 BuNo 128451.
(to be combined with BuNo 129565, to make one complete aircraft)

David Moore · Post by **David Moore** » 21 Mar 2022, 22:48

Thank you for your contributions. I think that it was probably the fuselage of a Cutlass. The Google Maps image must be from a while ago, as now there is an F-4 and a Blue Angels F/A-18C in that area, plus a nearly complete Cutlass.

The fuselage I am interested in has a HUD in the cockpit so I doubt it is that of the second Cutlass.

David

PeterN · Post by **PeterN** » 27 Mar 2022, 23:26

This is what we logged in the restoration area
from a Hornblower harbour cruise in September 2019

154370/NK A-7E VA-97 ? /315 F/A-18
165297/584 E-2C (163535) E-2C
(129565) F7U-3 Cutlass / NK-(07) S-3A VA-37 USS Constellation

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