Post nothing but civilian A-26 photos

[Swiss Mustangs]

N103C September 1961

[T J Johansen]

Question: Did the Marksman use the cockpit enclosure from another aircraft? It looks like a DC-6 windshield..really mucks up the lines of an otherwise slick bird. I'm assuming it was done for pressurization purposes.

SN

The Marksman used a purpose built fuselage and not the Douglas built one. Mucks up the lines as compared to the Marketeer yes, but I still kinda like it. It looks brutal.

T J

[ronolsen]

T J,

Here is another On Mark Marksman, perhaps the demonstrator. I shot N100Y about 1960 at Medford, OR.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/a26registry/a26-4322460.html

Thanks for the nice comment on my site earlier in this thread. More A-26s here:
http://www.ronsarchive.com/A-26_2nd/index.htm

Ron

[T J Johansen]

Thanks for posting this photo Ron. Can't say I have seen this one on your website.


And here is a photo of N303WC. It was later bought by the late G Edward Counselman of Topeka, KS who died in his second On-Mark N4813E when it crashed into a mountain in New Mexico.


Check also out this thread.
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... ght=n4813e
T J

[T J Johansen]

And here are a few photos of N500MR sent to me by J George Rivera who rebuilt the a/c in the 1980s. Not the best quality, but interesting images of an On-Mark in the autumn of its career. I haven't seen any interior photos of it while Bill Farrell owned it, or indeed after Minos Kiriakou bought it, but I would think it retains the plush interior.







T J

[Swiss Mustangs]

here's the Tillamook ship while with CAF and before going South to El Salvador as FAS-600.....

N3222T 44-34722



Martin

[Swiss Mustangs]

and yet another one of D-BACA which perished at the ZRH fire dump.

[Rogue]

Any info on these two?

Last edited by Rogue on Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[sledge39]

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...N500M...(later N500MR)...at Mojave '71...





...history...


http://www.warbirdregistry.org/a26regis ... 34769.html

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[T J Johansen]

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...N500M...(later N500MR)...at Mojave '71...





...history...


http://www.warbirdregistry.org/a26regis ... 34769.html

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Woah Sledge. Now that's a great photo of N500M. I first encountered this a/c in Reed Kinert's racing annual from the 71 season. It stated that 500M was copper tone with white/ blue trim. Unfortunately the photo was in b/w in that book. All later color photos of the a/c in that scheme that I've seen has portrayed it as either black or coal grey. It is therefore cool to see that Kinert was actually correct in his description of it. This is a stunning Marketeer! So much better than in my photos from 1987 above.

T J

[vg-photo]

This one showed up at Camarillo for the QB-36 show:

[Rogue]

Wow that is clean!

[vg-photo]

One of the shiniest warbirds I have seen. It was a beauty. From what I have heard, the owner of this one has 2 other A-26s! This one is N126HK, a C model built in 1944.

[T J Johansen]

One of the shiniest warbirds I have seen. It was a beauty. From what I have heard, the owner of this one has 2 other A-26s! This one is N126HK, a C model built in 1944.

Howard Keck also have N26BK which flies, and N99426 which doesn't. If anyone know Mr. Keck please try to get him to rebuild N99426 to flying condition. That would be the only airworthy Marksman today!

T J

[Phantom1200]

This one showed up at Camarillo for the QB-36 show:

Thats a very pretty airplane.