 During the production run , the Navy decided to move the Chance Vought factory from Stratford , Connecticut to a much larger facility in Dallas , Texas which had been vacant since the end of World War II ; this badly disrupted the production of the Pirate . The airframes were built in Stratford and trucked to Dallas where government @-@ furnished equipment , such as the engines and afterburners , were installed . The completed aircraft were then taxied around the new plant 's airfield , but the runway was deemed too short to handle jets . The aircraft had to be disassembled and trucked to an abandoned airfield at Ardmore , Oklahoma with a runway long enough for acceptance testing . 
