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INVADER/44-35617



Serial #: 44-35617
Construction #: 28896
Civil Registration:
  N7660C
  N600WB
  N26RP
  Model(s):
  A-26C Invader
  RB-26C Invader
  On Mark Marketeer
Name: The Devils Own Grim Reaper
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2002

History:
Delivered to USAAF as 44-35617.
- BOC: May 15, 1945.
- SOC: January 1958
- Assigned to 140th Base Unit, Moody Field, GA, May 1945.
- Transferred to 4160th Base Unit, Hobbs Field, NM, January 1946.
- Transferred to 4135th Base Unit, Hill Field, UT, July 1947.
- Transferred to Ogden Air Material Area, Hill AFB, January 1951.
- Transferred to 117th Reconnaissance Technical Wing (Tactical Air Command), Lawson AFB, GA, November 1951.
-- Modified to RB-26C configuration, June 1952.
- Transferred to 10th Reconnaissance Technical Wing (USAFE), Toul-Rosiere AB, France, July 1952.
- Transferred to 85th Air Defence Wing (USAFE), Erding AB, Germany, June 1953.
- Transferred to 10th Reconnaissance Technical Wing (USAFE), Spangdahlem AB, Germany, July 1952.
- Transferred to 737th Maintenance Group (USAFE), Chateauroux AB, France, March 1954.
- Transferred to 10th Reconnaissance Technical Wing (USAFE), Spangdahlem AB, Germany, April 1954.
- Transferred to 184th Technical Reconnaissance Squadron (Arkansas ANG), Ft. Smith, AR, 1955.
- Transferred to 154th Technical Reconnaissance Squadron (Arkansas ANG), Adams Field, Little Rock, AR, 1956.
- Retired to MASDC, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1957.
Unknown Owner, 19??.
- Registered as N7660C.

Ridge Associates Inc, Flint, MI, 1961-1963.
- Registered as N600WB.
Mid America Air Transport, Chicago, IL, 1966.
Red Dodge Aviation Inc, Anchorage, AK, 1969-1972.
John Steinmetz, Griffin, GA, 1977.
Oklahoma Aircraft Corp, Yukon, OK, July 6, 1982-1987.
- Impounded at Travis AFB, after siezure drug smuggling, US Customs, Mark 17, 1983.
- Returned to USAF control by a federal judge, 1984.
USAFM, Travis AFB, CA, 1987-1991.
Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill AFB, UT, 1992-2002.
- Displayed as 435617/BC-617/N/The Devils Own Grim Reaper.
- Fitted with 8-gun nose.

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.
Trygve Johansen
Hill Aerospace Museum
Photo Source(s):
Hill Aerospace Museum

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