On Sunday, June 8th, the Fort Worth Aviation Museum in Texas just took delivery of the last remaining Vought F6U Pirate following its overland journey from the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida. Little-known to many, the Pirate was not as successful as its designers may have hoped for, but it still marked the first jet aircraft built and flown by Vought Aircraft, and the first aircraft built by the company after it moved from Stratford, Connecticut, to Dallas, Texas.
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