A vintage F4U Corsair fighter-bomber — the type that helped the U.S. win World War II — has been added to the exhibits of the USS Midway Museum in San Diego.

The Midway is the latest in a series of museums that have hosted the 78-year-old aircraft, which was built by the Chance Vought Corporation in 1946. The plane was used by many Marine Corps squadrons until 1953.

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

The propeller-driven Corsairs were widely used in World War II and the Korean War, then were phased out with the onset of the jet age. The USS Midway, which was in service from 1945 to 1992, played a leading role in that famous transition.