Invader N126HK

a26invader · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:15 pm

Greetings all

I just learned via the Yahoo invader newsgroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/a26invader/ that N126HK made her first post-restoration flight in August this year from Van Nuys, CA. Reportedly the aircraft is to be fitted with long range tanks and ferried to Hawaii.

Anyone knows more?

Thanks

Kind regards

Nicolai

Steve T · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:46 pm

Dave M2 in NZ can tell you more about that--it appeared in Classic Wings recently. What I can say is that the Invader is gorgeous, a real work of art.

S.

setter · **Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:57 pm

Hi

Well if it's going to Hawaii with long range tanks it could be going further ...... and further is.........Aus/NZ.......

Anybody know anything or am I just getting too keen and it is just hauling Pineapples around the main Island?

Dave - know anything you can share.

Regards
John P

a26invader · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:24 am

setter wrote:

Hi

Well if it's going to Hawaii with long range tanks it could be going further ...... and further is.........Aus/NZ.......

Anybody know anything or am I just getting too keen and it is just hauling Pineapples around the main Island?

Well, I talked to the restores in April 2003 at Van Nuys, CA, and they explained the owner wanted to base the Invader at Hawaii. No one metioned Aus/NZ, sorry

setter · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:49 am

Hi a26invader

Oh well - they can't all come true - just one of my favourite aircraft thats all

Regards
John P

DaveM2 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2004 11:53 pm

AFAIK Hawaii is the last stop for this aircraft, not sure who is operating it there though.

Dave

setter · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:02 am

Hi Dave

Thanks for that

Bugger!

Regards
John P

a26invader · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:45 pm

I just stumbled over this shot of N126HK taken at Van Nuys on November 25 2004:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/752198/L/

This is the first post-restoration photo I see of N126HK

Wouldn't it be neat to see N126HK in an air-2-air session with sister N26BK ?

:roll:

setter · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:23 pm

Hi

Well as Oscar Duck has bought one somewhere else I still get to see one in the air here AND I am going to Hawaii for a holiday later in the year so I see that one as well - Great!!!

John P

a26invader · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:28 pm

setter wrote:

Hi

Well as Oscar Duck has bought one somewhere else I still get to see one in the air here AND I am going to Hawaii for a holiday later in the year so I see that one as well - Great!!!

John P

John, who is Oscar Duck and which Invader are you reffering to when you say you "get to see one in the air here" ?

Thanks

Nic

setter · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:13 pm

Hi Nic

Oscar is a local Warbird identity here in Queensland Australia who owns a few very nice machines including a TBM and he has aquired an as yet unidentified A26 for operation here in Brisbane so we are all looking forward to it. For understandable reasons oscar doesn't want to discuss the identity until it is all finalised but as he is a member of the forum you could PM him if you liked ?

Regards
John P

a26invader · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:49 am

Thanks John, I will look for him on WIX and send him a PM.

I didn't know an Invader was heading Down Under... you lucky WIX'er

Nic
a26invader

T J Johansen · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 7:33 am

Which 26 did Mr. Duck use to own? The only other Invader I know of that spent time in Australia was N99426 "The Hustler", now in store with the owner of N126HK and N26BK!

T J

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