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A bit more demanding than the usual post your... threads. One of my favourite aircraft is the Douglas A26 Invaders and doing some slide copying I pulled out these three rather grainy shots. If you have other examples, I'd love to see them.

Number one here is North Weald, I think, sometime in the early 80s. the other two are Oakland CA in 1984, I'm afraid I don't have the IDs but the second one appears to have been an exec conversion, maybe an On Mark Marksman. I remember that in the 60s N190Y was an On Mark Marksman that visied LHR, an early biz 'jet'

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A nice war bird at Dekelia-Tatoi, Greece on 6 November 2016.

A-26B N500MR is owned by the Greek shipping magnate Minos Kirakou. This Invader was built in 1945 as 44-34769, but never saw combat action and was put up for disposal directly after delivery. It had more than 10 different civil owners before is was flown to Greece in 1995. Somewhere during it's history it received a passenger configuration with windows on the starboard side.

ImageA-26B Invader by Rob Schleiffert, on Flickr

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322612 at Duxford 18 June 1978
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RobS wrote:A nice war bird at Dekelia-Tatoi, Greece on 6 November 2016.

A-26B N500MR is owned by the Greek shipping magnate Minos Kirakou. This Invader was built in 1945 as 44-34769, but never saw combat action and was put up for disposal directly after delivery. It had more than 10 different civil owners before is was flown to Greece in 1995. Somewhere during it's history it received a passenger configuration with windows on the starboard side.


That's a beauty, passengers, now that would be a good way to spend my money
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A few of mine:
1. Duxford c2001
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2.JD-1/A-26 NMNA Pensacola 2004
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More to follow when Photobucket gets its *rse in gear :mad:

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3. B-26B National Warplane Museum, Corning NY - 2004
Image145_4528 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

4. A-26K Travis Air Museum CA - 2006
ImageIMG_2025 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

5. A-26B Castle Air Museum, CA - 2006
ImageIMG_1899 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

6. A-26B Pacific Air Museum, Santa Rosa, CA - 2006
ImageIMG_2062 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

7. B-26K South Dakota Air & Space Museum, Ellsworth AFB, SD - 2016
ImageNR6A9740 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

8. A-26C NMUSAF, Dayton, OH - 2015
ImageNR6A0739 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

9. A-26B Tillamook Air Museum, OR - 2016
ImageNR6A0733 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

I hope these work, as I'm now trying Flickr having become thoroughly fed up with Photobucket after very many years.

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wow, thanks all, what a great collection
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Another one from me USAF Museum Wright Patterson 1980

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Someone please enlighten me. What is that huge, agricultural-looking red lever in the cockpit of Sugarland Express, next to the throttle quadrant?

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March AFB museum 28/1/2018 A26C 44-35224/N6240D


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RB-26C Invader on display at Hickam AFB, Oahu, Hawaii - March 2008

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Douglas A-26 Invader - Hickam AFB by Chris Day, on Flickr

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tankbuster wrote:Number one here is North Weald, I think, sometime in the early 80s.

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Do you remember, by any chance, if this was August 1989, at the Air Britain fly-in? If so, I was in the back of the A-26. I remember the crew popping the clamshell canopy open and donning Viking helmets as we taxied in on arrival from Duxford. Lars Ness and Anders Saether were piloting IIRC.

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There's something so nice about this aircraft. Lovely shots!
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