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| Keywords: F4U 7 AND CORSAIR 11.JPG en Lynn Garrison in his Vought F4U-7 Corsair BuNo 133693 leading LTV A-7A-4a-CV Corsair II fighters BuNo 153168 153174 153175 of U S Navy Attack Squadron VA-147 Argonauts over Naval Air Station Lemoore California USA on 7 July 1967 before their first deployment to Vietnam aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger CVA-61 The A-7A NE-300 is the aircraft of the Air Group Commander CAG of Attack Carrier Air Wing 2 CVW-2 <br> The A-7A 153175 suffered an engine failure over the Gulf of Tonkin on 31 October 1968 The pilot ejected and was rescued <br>The F4U-7 133693 had been delivered to the Aéronavale French naval air service s/n 692 in 1952 It was returned to the MAAG office in the US Embassy Paris Lynn Garrison purchased this aircraft through the MAAG office in 1964 At that time he founded the Air Museum of Canada Garrison moved to California where he formed the American Aerospace Museum and registered the Corsair with this organization as N693M The plane finally crashed and was destroyed near Brown Field San Diego California on 10 May 1987 Lynn Garrison US Navy 1967-07-07 PD PD-USGov F4U Corsair warbirds A-7A Corsair II Strike Fighter Squadron 147 United States Navy United States Navy air group commander aircraft Lynn Garrison | ||||
