B-26 invader for sale hmmm could be nice at that price..

Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:42 am

http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/n401Y.htm

Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:11 am

Some friends and I have had our eye on that one for some time. I would say that an A-26 is just about the most bang for the buck in a warbird at this time,the problem is coming up with the buck's! If you could combine this one with one from Reddeer you could really have something. I have some old pictures that I have saved off the net but no credits to be given.

Steve

Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:22 am

Id de convert that into a Korean War 8 nose strafer B-26 bomber from the 13th LBS and call her Chadwick 5 maybe

.. sigh

Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:36 am

I'd repaint her back into a Marksman. They are rare birds as-is, and I think it is important to have an example of these conversions since they did serve an important purpose in the history of the B-26. Without the Marksman, I doubt we'd have ever seen the Counter Invader. Plus, it would be a good support airplane for smaller fighter-type warbirds that can't carry their own stuff to sell.

Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:51 am

CAPFlyer wrote:I'd repaint her back into a Marksman. They are rare birds as-is, and I think it is important to have an example of these conversions since they did serve an important purpose in the history of the B-26. Without the Marksman, I doubt we'd have ever seen the Counter Invader. Plus, it would be a good support airplane for smaller fighter-type warbirds that can't carry their own stuff to sell.

Oh man, I do hope either you or me can come up with the cash to fix this On-Mark. This is the prototype Marketeer and should be restored as such. With all the former fire bombers out there which can be made into stock bombers more easily it would be nice to see some of these exec. conversions stay that way. I remeber seeing photos of a Howard (350, 500??) at Oshkosh some years ago without military paint (and looking mighty good) and no one seemed to start arguing that it ought to be rebuilt as a military Lodestar.
Here is a photo of N401Y when owned by George Rivera at Oakland, CA. He had this one as well as N500MR which was rebuilt and later sold to Bill Farrell as "Gator Invader".

T J

Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:52 am

There is an A-26 on Controller for a long time now.
http://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft-for-sale/DOUGLAS-A-26-INVADER/1944-DOUGLAS-A-26-INVADER/1096579.htm?guid=BF912A78A5AE488B966EA5EA702E2931

If I had the money I would buy some of them but of course I don't have it.
There were a lot of fires in Greece this year, in Spain in 2005. It could visit airshows between fighting fires.

Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:29 am

planeoldsteve wrote:Some friends and I have had our eye on that one for some time. I would say that an A-26 is just about the most bang for the buck in a warbird at this time,the problem is coming up with the buck's! If you could combine this one with one from Reddeer you could really have something.

Steve

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Red+Deer, ... iwloc=addr

Steve

Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:45 am

Ober, was the one at San Antonio International many years ago one of these? It had a wing fire and sat many years there as you came into the airport where Rusty place was, Nayak...

Lynn

Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:49 am

How many A-26s does Air Spray have left ?

Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:37 am

The one at San Antonio was owned by the Zachary flight department. Is there someway you can back into it with that info and find out where it went?

Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:34 am

I think restoring it as the Marksman would be fabulous. I've always wanted to see a museum NOT restore a former crop duster Stearman or N3N back to it's wartime configuration. There were some very nicely down crop duster conversions and they certainly have their place in aviation AND agricultural history to be honored for their much longer peace time duties!
GO MARKSMAN!
Jerry

Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:18 pm

Jerry O'Neill wrote:I think restoring it as the Marksman would be fabulous. I've always wanted to see a museum NOT restore a former crop duster Stearman or N3N back to it's wartime configuration. There were some very nicely down crop duster conversions and they certainly have their place in aviation AND agricultural history to be honored for their much longer peace time duties!
GO MARKSMAN!
Jerry

T J

Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:19 pm

Obergrafeter wrote:The one at San Antonio was owned by the Zachary flight department. Is there someway you can back into it with that info and find out where it went?

H B Zachery Co of San Antonio owned this a/c in the 1960s.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/a26regis ... 34769.html

Another A-26 sitting idle in San Antonio during that timeframe was the one mentioned at the bottom of this thread. Don't know who owned it though.
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... ght=n507wb

Do you guys remember what the 26 you're talking about looked like?

T J

Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:31 pm

I seem to remember the Zachary plane being kind of a pink or beige color. Its only been 45 years. I do remember it having a taxi accident and injuring Mrs Zachary and that was the end of that in the flight department. Makes one wish he hung out at the airport more with Dee Howard, Ed Swearingin around. Probably a good number of warbirds went thru ther unnoticed. Got my private flying out of Nayak in 68, with Rebel aviation across the ramp, all those C-47s, C119s, and who knows what else sitting in the weeds.