Vought Corsair biplane completed

Fifteen years after construction began, the Grand Prairie, Texas-based Vought Heritage Foundation recently completed a reproduction Vought O3U‑3 Corsair floatplane, a type that originally went into US Navy service in the patrol and observation role during 1932. During the span of the project 60 volunteers took approximately 80,000 hours to build the aircraft, on top of the more than 2,000 hours of research time that volunteer archivist Bill Spidle contributed to the enterprise, gathering in excess of 1,600 O3U-3 drawings