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When it comes to Corsair restorations two shops come to mind\u2014the late John Lane\u2019s Airpower Unlimited in Jerome, Idaho, and Chuck Wahl\u2019s Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation in Cameron Park, California. Vintage Aviation News recently sat down with Chuck Wahl at his shop at Cameron Park Airport (O61) about the progression of numerous Corsair projects.<\/p>\n

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When complete, F4U-1 Corsair BuNo 02449 will be the world\u2019s only flying \u201cBirdcage\u201d Corsair. \u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl\/Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chuck Wahl\u2019s affinity for aviation, and more specifically warbirds, can be traced back to his grandfather, who flew B-17s and B-24s during World War II and his father, who flew A-7s and AV-8As (as exchange pilot in the Marine Corps) in the Navy. This influence led Chuck to start flying R\/C models at a young age, and when he was 16 he soloed, got his private at 17, followed by his commercial, instrument, and CFI at 18. While he\u2019s been flying nearly all his life, he never flew professionally as he explained, \u201cI flew for fun. I sat behind a radar screen for almost 26 years at the world\u2019s largest ATC facility, Oakland Center, from 1982 to 2008.\u201d Not only did Chuck get into flying at a young age, he started in warbirds early on as well. He flew T-34s in high school and earned his commercial and CFI ratings in Mentors. Chuck owns that T-34 today and plans to restore it to flying condition in the near future.<\/p>\n

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Chuck\u2019s grandfather (standing far left) flew and instructed in B-17s and B-24s during World War II.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chuck\u2019s father was a Naval Aviator that flew A-7s in the Navy and AV-8As as an exchange pilot with the Marine Corps.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While he was with the FAA, Chuck established a computer side business, but one day he had enough and was looking for another hobby, so he bought a T-28 project and restored it to flying condition. That project was followed by a T-34, which he kept, followed by an SNJ-5C BuNo 90656, which won 2009 National Aviation Heritage Invitational Grand Champion and 2010 Oshkosh Grand Champion Post-WWII, among many others. \u201cIt\u2019s just blossomed ever since,\u201d Chuck said.<\/p>\n

\"Chuck
After completing T-28 and T-34 projects, Chuck tackled the restoration of SNJ-5C BuNo 90656, which won multiple awards at Reno and Oshkosh.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl\/Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Up to that point, the restorations were personal, but in 2010, he established Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation (VRA) and he\u2019s been busy ever since. The first project he undertook was the structural restoration of SB2C-1A Helldiver BuNo 75552, which took to the sky again on August 8, 2024. \u201cIn conjunction with that, we started the Dauntless 10694 and finished and flew that airplane in July of 2017. It\u2019s in the museum in Colorado Springs and flies semi-regularly, I guess. It\u2019s probably going to forever be the most authentically restored Dauntless. The big thing in my shop is authenticity. We\u2019re all about authenticity. I want our projects to be exactly as they were manufactured 80 years ago. So, if it\u2019s a machined part or sheet metal, what have you, ink stamps, metal stamps, wiring, rivets, we do it all. We do everything except engines, propellers, and instruments,\u201d Chuck stated.<\/p>\n

\"SBD
Upon establishing Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation, Chuck and his crew took on the restoration of SBD-4 Dauntless BuNo 10694, which was recovered from the bottom of Lake Michigan in the mid-1990s. Today, it\u2019s part of the National Museum of World War II Aircraft in Colorado Springs, Colorado.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl\/Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When asked how such a level of authenticity is achieved, Chuck explained, \u201cWell, it takes a lot of research. Constantly, day after day, after day. You\u2019re in the prints. You\u2019re in the manuals specific to the aircraft as well as the ones how manufacturers did things across their process for all the planes they produced. Then, you have things nowadays like wire. Tefzel wire is what\u2019s used in aviation, but I send it out and have it cotton-covered, and lacquer finished with a non-flammable FAA-authorized lacquer that makes it look 80 years old with the color, the stripes. Then the wiring numbers are put on, and those are specific to each manufacturer, like North American, Vought, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Birdcage is getting sized up for its flaps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSo, it just comes down to research and original parts. You see how they did things, and you just duplicate it. That becomes a large part of the challenge of restoring these airplanes\u2014duplicating the process. It is not just making a part that would fit, make it like the original part so that it will fit like the original part.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having the manuals and prints though, don\u2019t always answer all of the questions, like\u00a0how<\/em>\u00a0a certain manufacturer made a part, as Chuck esplained. \u201cThe prints and the manuals won\u2019t tell you how to manufacture parts. That was pretty much proprietary back in the day. Luckily, I have an extremely talented crew that can reverse-engineer things. The guys just take the challenge on, unwilling to be defeated on how it was done. They will figure it out at all costs. Sometimes we had to figure out how to do things that required three or four of us as a team to get together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"December
The Corsair is one of the most complicated warbirds to restore and the most complicated part is the spar.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl\/Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Those talents Chuck spoke of contributed to the restoration of the Brewster F3A-1 Corsair, that now resides in the National Museum of World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs. The nose bowl on the Corsair is extremely difficult to produce, but the crew at VRA accomplished the task and that led to a phone call from Nelson Ezell, whose shop was restoring the Brewster, as Chuck related. \u201cNelson Ezell called me when he started working on the Brewster. He said, \u2018Hey Chuck, do you think you can make the skins for the nose bowl?\u2019\u00a0 Those skins are extremely difficult to make and takes about two weeks to make the three skins that comprise an entire nose bowl. They\u2019re very unique, the way they\u2019re formed and the way they\u2019re wrapped around on the leading edge. So, we take on the challenge and it just takes a crew of guys. We reverse engineer and figure out how to do things, and trial and error on some things. Some things we get lucky, and some things we keep beating our head against the wall until we figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

While VRA got its start with the Dauntless and Helldiver restorations, in recent years it has truly become known for Corsairs work. When the author visited in July 2022, the shop looked like a mini production line in Stratford or Akron and remains so today. It is quite an exciting sight for Corsair enthusiasts. Chuck explained how this came about: \u201cI had a number of friends with Corsair projects, and they asked what my plans were when the Dauntless was finished. I told them, \u2018Well, I\u2019d love to do Corsairs, if that\u2019s what we want to do, if the guys want to get together and do it.\u2019 So, we started going in that direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo, in 2014, we got our first set of Corsair outer wings in the shop. When we finished the Dauntless in 2017, we were already looking forward to spooling up and the next thing, you know, I got seven Corsairs in the shop under restoration.\u201d Chuck\u2019s head-first dive into Corsair restorations was facilitated by one of his clients, Duane Doyle, who had spent 20 years of spanning the globe collecting Corsair parts. The result was five semi-trailers, a shipping container, and a whole shop full of Corsair parts. \u201cToday we have the world\u2019s largest supply of Corsair parts,\u201d Chuck said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s still not enough to do everything we\u2019re doing on the seven projects currently in the shop.\u201d Chuck\u2019s statement about seven projects doesn\u2019t necessarily mean seven complete airframes. Some of them are in the shop of the owners where they are working on various components. Chuck has a number of major components, including ten outer wings panels. The Corsair outer wing program is quite extensive.<\/p>\n

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VRA currently has ten sets of Corsair outer wing panels in various states of restoration.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl\/Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"SSC
One set of outer wings is the original fabric-covered set from Jim Tobul\u2019s F4U-4 BuNo 97143\u00a0Korean War Hero<\/em>. The Corsair is currently fitted with \u201cmetalized\u201d wings, but Chuck expects the fabric wings will be reinstalled on Tobul\u2019s Corsair this winter.\u00a0Photo- Stephen Chapis<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One set of wings at VRA belong on Jim Tobul\u2019s combat veteran F4U-4 BuNo 97143\u00a0Korean War Hero<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019ve got his original fabric covered wings,\u201d Chuck explained. \u201cSo he\u2019s currently flying a secondary set of that are metalized. We\u2019re also working on a set of fabric-covered wooden ailerons that will go on his airplane as well.\u00a0 They\u2019ll be finished this winter.\u201d What Corsairs can we expect to fly out of VRA in the years to come? While Chuck could not go on record with all projects, what he did speak to is exciting enough! Three of the projects are veterans of the 1969 Soccer War between Honduras and El Salvador. Another is FG-1D BuNo 76628, which is known internally as the \u201cHawaiian Corsair.\u201d This aircraft was in Hawaii at the end of World War II and crashed in 1946 and remained in situ until it was recovered in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\"March
One of two Soccer War veteran FG-1Ds currently under restoration at VRA.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl\/Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"March
The third Soccer War veteran is this stunning F4U-4.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl\/Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A second Goodyear-built Corsair at VRA will be especially exciting to air racing fans. \u201cIt\u2019s an FG-1A, bureau number 13481, but most people know it as\u00a0Lucky Gallon,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Chuck said. \u201cThis aircraft was raced in the 1946 Cleveland Air Races. He took sixth place. That was the first and only non-Super Corsair Cook raced, because that 1946 race he told an admiral, \u2018If you want to beat these Army Air Corps guys and these P-38s and so forth, I\u2019m going to need those Super Corsairs to go faster.\u2019 So, in \u201947, they started racing the Super Corsair and\u00a0Lucky Gallon<\/em>\u00a0got parked for many years until Walter Soplata bought the remains and put it on his estate until it was purchased maybe five or six years ago\u2026\u201d Chuck said. When complete, the Corsair will be finished in its maroon and cream racing livery.<\/p>\n

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Air racing enthusiasts will be excited to know that Cook Cleland\u2019s 1946 Thompson Trophy competitor FG-1A \u201cLucky Gallon\u201d is progressing well at VRA.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl\/Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"July
When complete, Lucky Gallon will fly with an original set of FG-1A wings.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl\/Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last project Chuck discussed is what he likes to call \u201cthe shop mascot\u201d- F4U-1 BuNo 02449. Not only is this aircraft one of the so-called \u201cBirdcage Corsairs,\u201d but it is also just the 297th<\/sup>\u00a0Corsair built. Accepted by the Navy on March 13, 1943, it was immediately shipped to the South Pacific. Chuck takes the story. \u201cThis is where it gets almost unbelievable, quite frankly. So, the history card shows it at Guadalcanal at the end of April and the entire month of May. In mid to late June of \u201943, it was at Guadalcanal in MAG-11 and was assigned VMF-112.\u00a0 [Author\u2019s note- this squadron was called\u00a0Wolf Pack\u00a0<\/em>and was home to almost a dozen early Corsair aces.\u00a0<\/em>The squadron went on to see combat in Korea and Operation\u00a0Iraqi Freedom<\/em>. Today, the-now designated VMFA-112 is known as the\u00a0Cowboys<\/em>, and operate the F\/A-18C+ Legacy Hornet and are slated to convert to the F-35B in 2029].\u00a0 I\u2019m still doing research, but we have found one pilot\u2019s logbook that has 02449 listed in it in the South Pacific. Cory down at Planes of Fame found that for us.\u00a0 I recently hired Dana Bell to go to the National Archives\u2026 he actually found a Navy photograph, dated June 4, 1943, of the airplane with VMF-112.\u201d The story doesn\u2019t end there, however. Chuck has also uncovered documentation that shows 02449 was later assigned to VMF-214\u00a0Swashbucklers,\u00a0<\/em>and from September 1943 to the world famous Boyington-era\u00a0Black Sheep<\/em>. That, however, is another story for another time.<\/p>\n

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The most historically significant project at VRA is Chuck\u2019s own F4U-1 BuNo 02449 \u201cBirdcage\u201d Corsair. When it flies, this aircraft, which was once assigned to VMF-112\u00a0Wolf Pack<\/em>\u00a0& VMF-214\u00a0Swashbucklers<\/em>\u00a0in 1943, it will be the only airworthy Birdcage in the world.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl\/Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A Corsair is held together with tens of thousands of rivets.\u00a0Photo- Chuck Wahl\/Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In closing Chuck said, \u201cThese airplanes, they have heart, and they have soul. They know what\u2019s going on. I\u2019m 100 percent convinced by being around these old airplanes for as many years as I have, that there\u2019s another side that we can\u2019t get to in our life. Things happen that you can\u2019t explain. It\u2019s interesting. It just really makes you raise your eyebrow and say, \u2018Wow, maybe there is another side that someday we all go to, and that side\u2019s watching what we\u2019re doing on this side.’\u201d For Corsair veterans and enthusiasts on both sides of the great beyond, the next decade will be an exciting time as each Corsair at Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation takes to the skies once more.\u00a0For more information about Vulture\u2019s Row Aviation visit their website\u00a0www.vulturesrowaviation.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Facebook page.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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