VOUGHT-SIKORSKY V-166 Corsair (NX1337A)

https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=70614

once again, there is no AC type v-166, see @Jesse Kyzer's reference

You can't blame "cyyc spotter" for using the correct ICAO Type Designator for this aircraft and then having Flight Aware display the name of the initial factory designation. See the following from the Wikipedia entry discussing the development of the F4U:

"In June 1938, the U.S. Navy signed a contract with Vought for a prototype bearing the factory designation V-166B, the XF4U-1, BuNo 1443."

So, at the very beginning of it's development an F4U was a V-166 (or V-166B), at least as far as Vought was concerned.

When someone enters no aircraft type designator, or an incorrect type designator, FA will display no name for that aircraft. When you use the correct type designator FA will display a name. However, it is a mystery (at least to me) as to which name, of all the aircraft variants, FA will choose to display. Very often FA picks some obscure variant name to display, as in the Corsair. Another example is the Lockheed Constellation. The correct type designator is CONI. But FA always displays it as: "Lockheed EC-121 Constellation," even though very few of the Coni's built were, in fact, the actual EC-121 variant.

As long as a contributor uses the correct aircraft type designator, that is the best he/she can do. You can always add more information, or more correct information, in the caption or in the comments which is what Jesse K. did.

Oh, and there are some aircraft for which there is no ICAO Type Designator. In those cases you can use ZZZZ, which is the code for an unknown or undesignated type.

hmm; no one mistakes the NA-73X for a P-51, but almost everyone mistakes the V-166.
The V-166 / NA-73x are factory design lables, never aircraft type codes and never as FAA register types

Yup, I agree with you. But, to be clear, "cyyc spotter" did not use V-166 as the aircraft type code. He used the correct code of CORS.

which makes the point that the FA database is corrupt -- ergo, in error. The proper codes for the Corsair are F4U, FG-1, F2G or F3A ... NOT CORS.

Names for AC prior to 1948 (creation of ICAO) are all figments of the website.

Where there are multiple names for a TYPE, the web programmer is stuck with the first entry in the list -- SIGH.

Okay, one more time. CORS is the correct ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) Aircraft Type Designator for all variants of the F4U Corsair.

You can look it up here:
https://www.icao.int/publications/DOC8643/Pages/Search.aspx

or here:
http://www.flugzeuginfo.net/table_accodes_en.php


The type code CORS is not made up by FlightAware. What is made up by FA is the name they choose to display when using the code. All your complaints about the database being messed up (and I agree it is) should be directed to FA.

Thank you Greg. QED

You’re very welcome.