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Douglas A-26 Invader/41-39223


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Serial #: 41-39223
Construction #: 6936
Civil Registration:
  N74Y
Model(s):
  A-26B
  B-26B
  B-26Z
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2004
  History:
Alex Oser, circa 1950.
- Acquired from USAF as scrap.
Texas Railroad & Equipment Co, Houston, TX, Feb. 19, 1952-1954.
- Sold to Armee de L'Air.
Delivered to Armee de L'Air as 4139223/Z-009.
- BOC: Nov. 1954.
- SOC: Oct. 20, 1965.
- Converted to B-26Z Target Tug.
- Withdrawn from service, Sept. 1965.
- Stored at Mont De Marsan AB, 1972.
- Gate Guard at Saintes-Thernac AB, France, 1978
Musee de l'Air, Paris-Le Bourget, 1993-2004.
- Restoration to airworthy, Tremons, 1994.
- Loaned to Ailes Anciennes Toulouse, Toulouse, France, 1996-2004.
-- Undergoing rstoration.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Photo Source(s):
Unknown
Ailes Anciennes Toulouse
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