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In 1971, after her journey from San Salvador to the USA, FG-1D Corsair Bu.92460 experienced the indignity of major parts removal, as part of a weight reduction effort to enable her new duty as a pole-mounted gate guard at the Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The monument team gutted her cockpit, then removed her landing gear, flaps, gun-bay doors, ammo cans, and dive brakes, fairing the openings over with simple sheetmetal structures. After repainting the airframe, the team bolted her into her position atop a concrete plinth beside the airport terminal, where she endured the coastal salt marsh air on the shores of Long Island Sound for the next several decades.