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HP selling a lot of its birds

http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/D&G%20%20Fleet.htm

I see a couple of potential birds for WIX there...A-26 anyone?

The PB4Y would be interesting to see flying.

That A-26 has a pretty barren "executive configuration!" Any idea if it has a ring spar? Looks like a decent price with two new engines and props.

According to my notes, this Invader was never in the hands of any "exec.mod." configuring company. I believe the price is fair and I sincerely hope this Invader is picked up by someone within the w/b society fairly quickly. It has dual controls and H&P was one of the few that could provide type-rating training on the type. Now that Air Spray is getting rid of their 26s aswel, we might soon see the market overflooded with Invaders... I'm not sure, that's a good thing...

Are there any good resources in print about On Mark conversions both civil and military?

What other companies performed Invader civilian conversions?

Scott Thompson/Aerovintage did a book on the Invader a couple of years ago. It contains some info on the various civilian conversions.
http://www.aerovintage.com/invader.htm
Also, Air Britain published an interesting article in one of their "Digest" a few years back. http://www.air-britain.com/

On Mark, L.B.Smith, Le Torneau, Rock Island, Rhodes Berry, LAS Super 26 where companies that all did various types of conversions on the Invader. Joe Baughers' excellent site covers some of those:
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher4/a26_31.html

Hope it helps.

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