F4U-2N Corsair VF(N)-101 CV-6 1944

The F4U-2 was an xperimental conversion of the F4U-1 Corsair into a carrier-borne nightfighter, armed with five .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns (the outboard, right gun was deleted), and fitted with Airborne Intercept (AI) radar set in a radome placed outboard on the starboard wing. Since Vought was preoccupied with more important projects, only 32 were converted from existing F4U-1s by the Naval Aircraft Factory and another two by front line units. The type saw combat with VF👎-101 aboard USS Enterprise and USS Intrepid in early 1944, VF👎-75 in the Solomon Islands, and VMF👎-532 on Tarawa.