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RickH · **Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:16 pm

NMF didn't jump out at me. Natural Metal Finish ?

If you look at Tim's pictures you'll notice that the SS exhaust shields are somewhat polished. Some polished better than others and some showed evidence of melting. I believe it was due to hot fuel used at Mojave and Reno. Dwight did take it around the pylons at Reno. If I remember right she averaged 285 mph.

JohnH · **Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:41 pm

Someone fill me in, I thought the A-26 at Castle AFB Museum was Dwight's. Did he have two? Maybe he was only the ferry pilot.

JH

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:27 pm

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Jack, NMF ?

The markings in Tim's pictures are all photo documented to duplicate her original colors carried at Pusan. We believed at the time that she was the only actual combat aircraft flying in her own combat colors.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/a26registry/a26-4435696.html
Wally McDonald and Dwight both have silver A-26s. McDonald's had tip tanks and Reimer's was named "Cotton Jenny". I realize 44-35696 was a combat vet and painted in wartime markings when owned by CF. However that was not the case when owned by Reimer. Somewhere I have photos of both a/c when they were racing.

RickH · **Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:39 pm

696 was painted silver when Dwight owned her and when CF acquired her. She arrived in Texas still sporting the R on her tail as well as her Race 26.

She was initially painted black with yellow trim. It wasn't until her 2nd Koren crew chief recognized her serial number at an airshow in northern Alabama that her specific wartime history was learned. After some verification and additional research we put her back to match late 1952.

The red & white propellor warning stripes amaze me. They were one of the last things painted. We were in a rush to make an appearance and I masked them and shot them with Krylon a couple of days prior to departure. I can't believe they still look that good.

When the Foundation acquired the plane she carried a sixgun hardnose. She was built as a C model with the glass nose. The glass nose was swapped out during its refit as a Korean War replacement at McClellan. The C model nose was reinstalled prior to knowing why the hardnose was on her.

valdez25 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:35 am

The BARNSTORMERS ad says $75,000.00. Didn't the flyable A-26 at the Hawkins&Powers auction sell for 125K?

T J Johansen · **Posted:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:58 am

JohnH wrote:

Someone fill me in, I thought the A-26 at Castle AFB Museum was Dwight's. Did he have two? Maybe he was only the ferry pilot.

JH

The A-26 at Castle was owned by the late John Crocker. The B-25 they have was owned by Dwight Reimer. Remember a photo in Air Classics of Reimer "mowing" the lawn in that 25 on arrival at Castle AFB around 1980.

T J

krlang · **Posted:** Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:49 am

TimAPNY wrote:

Westover ARB in Springfield, MA.

What a show that was, good amount of warbirds, U-2 did a flight demo, OV-1, A-6Es, F-14s, F-111s, AH-64s... We don't get airhshows like that anymore. :cry:

Tim

You didnt mention the TWO GeeBee's flying together!

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:36 am

krlang wrote:

TimAPNY wrote:

Westover ARB in Springfield, MA.

What a show that was, good amount of warbirds, U-2 did a flight demo, OV-1, A-6Es, F-14s, F-111s, AH-64s... We don't get airhshows like that anymore. :cry:

Tim

You didnt mention the TWO GeeBee's flying together!

I don't remember that.

Tim

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