Vought Aircraft

Lewis & Vought VE-7 1918 The American company Lewis & Vought of Long Island, New York, designed and flew in the summer ... read more ... With the development of a 300hp Hispano, Vought immediately designed a new aircraft around it, ... read more ... Lewis & Vought VE-8 1918 Vought VE-10 1919 read more ... The VE-9 was basically a VE-7 with a 134kW Hispano-Suiza engine. A small number were ... read more ... Lewis & Vought VE-9 1922 Vought UO 1922 Subsequent development of the VE-7 and VE-9 resulted in the UO which had an airframe ... read more ... First aircraft to bear the famous company name Vought Corsair, the initial O2U was little more than a ... read more ... Vought O2U Corsair 1926 Vought FU-1 1926 In May 1922, the former Lewis and Vought Corporation was reorganised as the Chance Vought Corporation and ... read more ... Early in 1927, the US Navy BuAer conceived a requirement for a two-seat fighter for fleet ... read more ... Vought XF2U-1 1929 Vought O3U / SU 1930 Continuing its highly successful Corsair biplane range, Vought produced in 1930 the new O3U-1 ... read more ... First flown in May 1933, the Vought XF3U-1 prototype was designed and built to meet a ... read more ... Vought SBU 1933 Vought XF3U-1 1933 By the spring of 1931, several months of operation of the Curtiss F8C-4 aboard the USS ... read more ... In 1932, the Vought company, believing an export market to exist for a single-seat fighter among ... read more ... Vought V-80 1933 Vought SB2U Vindicator 1936 The SB2U was this company's first low-wing monoplane and, like the earlier SBU, was a ... read more ... When, on 30 July 1935, the experimental Northrop 3A single-seat fighter was lost over the ... read more ... Vought V-141 1936 Vought V-143 1937 The V-141 having acquired a somewhat alarming reputation, the aircraft was redesignated V-143 and, with modifications ... read more ... The XOS2U-1 prototype of this two-seat observation/scout monoplane was delivered to the US Navy in ... read more ... Vought OS2U Kingfisher 1938 Vought TBU / Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf 1941 The Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf was a United States Navy torpedo bomber of World War ... read more ... In 1938 -at which time Chance Vought was a division of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) ... read more ... Vought F4U Corsair 1942 Vought V-173 1942 To flight-test the concept of the XF5U a low-powered full-scale version was ... read more ... Almost certainly the most unusual aircraft designed by the company, the Chance Vought XF5U-1 was ... read more ... Vought XF5U 1945 Vought F6U Pirate 1946 Before World War II ended, Chance Vought was busy with the design of the Chance ... read more ... The Cutlass was a swept-wing tailless single-seat carrier-borne fighter which entered service with the US ... read more ... Vought F7U Cutlass 1948 Vought F8U / F-8 Crusader 1955 The prototype Crusader single-seat carrier-based fighter flew for the first time on 25 March 1955. ... read more ... Despite its designation of F8U-3, the V-401, first flown on 2 June 1958, was a ... read more ... Vought F8U-3 1958 Vought A-7 Corsair II 1965 On 11 February 1964 the US Navy named the former LTV Aerospace Corporation winner of ... read more ...