Vought Corsair Junior

The Vought V-100 Corsair Junior was a cheaper, lighter and more versatile export version of the O2U and O3U Corsair observation biplanes that Vought built for the United States Navy, aimed at South American air arms with smaller budgets. It was a two-seat single-bay biplane with a 400 horsepower Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior radial engine, a welded steel tube fuselage and wooden wings covered in fabric. Both cockpits carried flying controls so that the rear seat could serve for instrument training, or be given over to a camera, radio or gunner with a flexible machine gun, and a fixed forward gun and bomb racks could be added. The aircraft could be fitted with wheels or with a single central float. It first flew between late 1934 and early 1935, but the concept of a light multi-purpose military aircraft did not attract buyers in South America, and only the prototype was built.