The Snapshots in Time Collection
Naval Aviator's Flight Logbook - September 1948 Entries, FG-1D and F4U-1 Corsair, NAS Oakland
A page from a naval aviator's personal flight logbook, September 1948, recording flights in the FG-1D and F4U-1 Corsair fighter aircraft from Naval Air Station Oakland, California. Logbooks such as this document an individual pilot's flight hours, aircraft flown, and mission type, offering a firsthand record of Navy and Marine Corps carrier aviation in the years following World War II. A later handwritten annotation connects one of the logged aircraft to the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California, where a surviving Corsair of this type is preserved today. Project: 218037