Need Help finding an A-26 or similar variant

raininglead · **Joined:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:14 pm **Posts:** 2

Hello all,

I have a special favor to ask.. I’m with an ANG Unit and I’ve been asked to help find an A-26 (or similar variant). This aircraft was flown by our Unit in the early 50’s in the RB-26 configuration. We would like to acquire one of these aircraft to display at our base. So here comes the favor part. I’m requesting your help in finding leads for this aircraft. An ideal find would be an aircraft that is not airworthy and could potentially need large amounts of work. We could work with it as long as a majority of the exterior parts are there and the aircraft could even be disassembled.

So there it is. Please help us out if you have any information/leads.

Cheers,

Justin
:drink3:

Warbirdnerd · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:34 pm **Posts:** 2923

I'm not sure if the ads are current, but here you go...

http://www.leaderaviation.com/Aircraft- ... ?rid=41084

http://sellinga26.com/

http://www.barnstormers.com/Warbird,%20 ... ifieds.htm

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:27 pm

Also, wasn't there one sitting at the airport in Buckeye Arizona for sale? It needed a lot of work. :drink3:

RickH · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:48 pm

I got the impression that he wanted a derelict. Not a dual control restoration that looks to be 90% restored , nor did he want a flyer.

RickH · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 9:21 pm

Quote:

Mike Kellner has a B-26 Invader that I think might be for sale to

It's not complete by any stretch of the imagination.

Mark_Pilkington · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:53 am

I thought an onmark conversion was featured in a thread on here recently, photographed sitting unloved in the weeds on the side of an airfield somewhere in the states?

regards

Mark Pilkington

WallyB · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:07 am

This document isn't dated that I can see, but there were some dismantled A-26s at Red Deer last year and maybe more in the hangars:
http://www.bizav.ca/pdfs/A26%20Invader% ... rcraft.pdf

Sgt13Echo · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:28 am

Very cool seeing the A-26's lined up at the airport in Red Deer, AB, Canada

Google Maps has them parked on the runway. Zoom in and see what else you can find!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Red+Deer,+AB,+Canada+airport&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=nfe&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&biw=1440&bih=836&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ei=Ish2UMH7JvKvygG49IHYDA&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAg

whistlingdeath77 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:47 am

I really love the a-26 and some of the prices are much cheaper than a home! Anybody know of one I can just have if it's sitting somewhere on a airport?

gary1954 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:23 pm

Mark_Pilkington wrote:

I thought an onmark conversion was featured in a thread on here recently, photographed sitting unloved in the weeds on the side of an airfield somewhere in the states?

regards

Mark Pilkington

Are you talking about this one?
44-35999 A-26C-55-DT C-GQPZ ex-N5052N, N52NM, as ex-XB-SIJ was a parts source, was also damaged in the 16 October 2000 hangar fire at Red Deer, Albert. she was lying flat on the ground minus wings and tail

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:32 pm

Or maybe 401Y! Was sitting derelict at Rockford Illinois for years until disassembley and moved to Vincennes Indiana last year :drink3:

Mark_Pilkington · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:20 am

gary1954 wrote:

Mark_Pilkington wrote:

I thought an onmark conversion was featured in a thread on here recently, photographed sitting unloved in the weeds on the side of an airfield somewhere in the states?

regards

Mark Pilkington

Are you talking about this one?
44-35999 A-26C-55-DT C-GQPZ ex-N5052N, N52NM, as ex-XB-SIJ was a parts source, was also damaged in the 16 October 2000 hangar fire at Red Deer, Albert. she was lying flat on the ground minus wings and tail

No this is the one I was thinking about, but the photos and even the last post was much earlier this year than I thought it was, (January), but I must have looked back into the thread recently to have remembered seeing it here?

In anycase - here it is -

Quote:

Took a quick day trip to Phoenix to visit some friends and wanted to update my files on the birds roosting @ Globe airport that I had not seen in over a decade.
On the way home stopped @ Santa Teresa airport to update my files on the Invader there.
Scott, feel free to use images for registry unless you need higher rez.

Apparantly its A-26: 44-34526 at Santa Teresa Airport?

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=44028&hilit=marksman

Quote:

Serial #: 44-34526
Construction #: 27805
Civil Registration:
N9178Z
N827W
N551EH
N400V
N7977
N26AB
Model(s):
A-26B
B-26B
On Mark Marksman
Name: Intimate Invader
Status: For Sale
Last info: 2002
History:
Registered as N9178Z by ???, 19??.
A.M. Wheaton Glass Corp, 19??.
- Registered as N827W.
E.T.S. Hokin Corp, San Francisco, CA, 1961-1966.
- Registered as N551EH.
- Converted to On Mark Marksman, Van Nuys, circa 1962.
CWC Air Inc, Flushing, MI, 1969.
- Registered as N400V.
Certified Check & Title Corp, Wilkesboro, NY, 1970.
- Registered as N7977.
Twin Cities Aviation, Inc, Edina, MN, 1972.
Dennis M. Sherman, West Palm Beach, FL, 1976-1978.
- Registered as N26AB.
- Flew in quasi USAF scheme, "Intimate Invader".
Oklahoma Aircraft Sales, Yukon, OK, Apr. 1981-1986.
Continental Jet Inc, Clarksville, TN, Mar. 1987.
Charles Bella, El Paso, TX, Chaparral, NM, 1988-2002.
- Open Storage, santa Teresa, NM, 1990-2002.
- Still marked as "Intimate Invader".

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/a26registry/a26-4434526.html

With all the stock and recently airworthy former Buffalo fire bomber/A-26s on offer in Canada, I would have thought this one would be available cheap as a static museum piece?, perhaps even a long term loan or tax deductable donation?

Just freshen up the paint scheme and leave the onmark cockpit as is.

regards

Mark Pilkington

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 11:54 am

Mark_Pilkington wrote:

Just freshen up the paint scheme and leave the onmark cockpit as is.

Totally agree.

raininglead · **Joined:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:14 pm **Posts:** 2

Hey all,

I apologize for not responding until know. I have been tracking the thread and I appreciate all of the post's. I have contacted several from the information above. I'm still looking and actively research this myself. Please keep the lead's coming in.

RickH is correct in that I'm looking for a derelict type aircraft.

The picture Mark_Pilkington posted is the condition AC I'm looking for. I'm doing more research on that Aircraft. The nose/wings/front windscreen would all need mods to make it look like one of our old planes but it's not out of the question.

I appreciate all the responses. Great community you have here!

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:57 am

Maybe Kermit Weeks would let this one go?

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/a26regis ... 35590.html

Been in storage for many years with Aero Trader but I believe it was pretty complete externally when he got it, and he already has another Invader. Can't hurt to ask.

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