The Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla., transferred the Corsair to San Diego for long-term display. It has been placed in the Midway’s hangar deck, at a spot across San Diego Bay from where Navy aircraft carriers used to stock F4Us.

A famous piece of history is now on display at the USS Midway Museum. An F4U-4 Corsair, a fighter-bomber which mainly flew in World War II and the Korean War, is in San Diego on a long-term loan from the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola,

The USS Midway Museum on Friday opened a new exhibit featuring a famous historical military aircraft, an F4U-4 Corsair.