Havana, the movie...

T J Johansen · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:59 am

Just watched this movie with Robert Redford. There is a pair of A-26s flying in some scenes. Anyone know which ones they were? My only guess would be a pair of the a/c that flew in Always the year before.

T J

MKD1966 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:58 am

One of them (actually the one always lowest in the flying scenes) was my step dad Larry Leaf flying A-26B s/n 44-34766 N9150 "Wild Thang" which is now N26BK owned by Howard Keck of Ca. - I know the 2nd Invader was a C.A.F. bird and I don't remember for sure but I think it was "Daisy Mae" but I'd have to dig out the copy of the old VCR tape that one of the guys on the 2nd A-26 filmed like a behind the scenes type tape while they where down in the Dominican Republic filming including them painting up both birds in Cuban markings... I didn't get to go on that trip, but Dad said they had a blast and I did get 2 real gooooood bottles of rum out of it... Mike

corsair166b · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:55 am

The other one was owned (at the time) by Mark Johnson here in Colorado, he sold it after the movie and moved on to his DeHavilland Venom....which unfortunately ran off the runway last year after a fresh paint job and caught fire....but I digress....

Mark

MKD1966 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:08 am

corsair166b wrote:

The other one was owned (at the time) by Mark Johnson here in Colorado, he sold it after the movie and moved on to his DeHavilland Venom....which unfortunately ran off the runway last year after a fresh paint job and caught fire....but I digress....

Mark

Mark Johnson owned our A-26 we called "Wild Thang" as it still had a big "J" painted on the tail about 3 years before we had it and then it went to the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica who used it as partial trade to John Silberman for his P-38 Lightning and we got it from Mr. Silberman... After checking I think the id of #2 is s/n 44-35643 N226RW owned by CAF... Mike

T J Johansen · **Posted:** Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:11 pm

MKD1966 wrote:

One of them (actually the one always lowest in the flying scenes) was my step dad Larry Leaf flying A-26B s/n 44-34766 N9150 "Wild Thang" which is now N26BK owned by Howard Keck of Ca. - I know the 2nd Invader was a C.A.F. bird and I don't remember for sure but I think it was "Daisy Mae" but I'd have to dig out the copy of the old VCR tape that one of the guys on the 2nd A-26 filmed like a behind the scenes type tape while they where down in the Dominican Republic filming including them painting up both birds in Cuban markings... I didn't get to go on that trip, but Dad said they had a blast and I did get 2 real gooooood bottles of rum out of it... Mike

You should get the tape transferred onto digital format and market it as a behind the scenes film. Would probably be plenty of people here interested in that. Do any photos of the pair in those colors survive?

T J

MKD1966 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:00 am

You should get the tape transferred onto digital format and market it as a behind the scenes film. Would probably be plenty of people here interested in that. Do any photos of the pair in those colors survive?

T J[/quote]

I'm not sure if anyone did any still photo's down there or not... I only remember seeing the paint job on the tape... Dad had the moive people remove the cuban paint scheme down there as he had heard a couple horror stories from other people who had used there a/c in other movies and if that movie paint isn't mixed right then it's a real bear to get off... I think the C.A.F. flew there A-26 back in the movie paint so maybe someone involved with them has some pics... Mike

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