April 12, 2009 at 4:36 pm
http://www.4gamer.net/games/084/G008446/20090401063/screenshot.html?num=006
(http://www.4gamer.net/games/084/G008446/20090401063/SS/006.jpg)
Just wondering: in the computer game Battlefield 1943, the F4U Corsair has the serial number “23”.
Did any real USMC or USN F4U have this serial number?
By: Don Chan - 13th April 2009 at 01:39
Thank you, Mr Spock. 8D
By: Bager1968 - 13th April 2009 at 00:28
That number is not the aircraft serial #, but a squadron/ship number denoting which aircraft it is…
Note in the pic below, there is the aircraft # (on nose or fuselage), a ship code (the letters on the vertical stabilizer), the squadron designation (below the word “Navy”. and the actual serial # (the numbers just above the retracted tailwheel and aft of the squadron designation).

Another, duplicating WW2 wartime markings of a specific aircraft:

2 USMC Corsairs (note the number just visible above the wingtip on the further one)

So in answer… there were probably a number with “23” on them.