As a matter of interest, this photograph was taken over Lemoore NAS, outside San Francisco on July 17, 1967. At the time Lynn Garrison had it registered as N693M. The N was for Navy and the M was for Marine. The 693 was the last 3 digits of it production number - 133693.

Garrison had purchased this aircraft in 1964 from the MAAG in Paris after it was retired from the French Navy. The French took the aircraft apart and transported it to the USN base at Rota, Spain. From here it was taken to Norfolk, Virginia on a USN supply ship where it was prepared for flight by a Marine group. The Corsaie was ferried to Vought Aeronautics in Grand Prairie, Texas where iot was flown by Stu Madison and Paul Thayer who wanted Garrison to do a Hoover Act to promote the sale of their Corsair 2.

There had been a mid-air between the B-70 and a Starfighter, while doing a photo mission for General Electric. This prevented a promotional flight at the Vought facility so Lynn Garrison went to Lemore and this was one of the photos that came from the flights there.

The Corsair was named BLUE MAX after Lynn Garrison's Blue Max Aviation facility in Ireland, which operated the collection created for the film...The Blue Max.

During a 1970 Roger Corman film project in Ireland - Von Richthofen & Brown, Lynn Garrison and actor Don Stroud were involved in an accident. Garrison was reported as having been killed. Robert E. Guilford, Garrison's attorney, upon hearing of this via United Artists, transferred Corsair N693M into his name - a clear case of theft by conversion. It would crash in San Diego with Marshall Moss at the controls, another of Garrison's business associates.