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 Post subject: A-26 in OK?
PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:49 pm 
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Just heard about an A-26 that is being restored in OK. In a quick search I turned up this picture. My guess is this is the one. Anyone know the identity?

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I know I heard at one time 44-35562/N7079G was being restored in OK. I haven't heard any news of it in quite a while. It sat at Downtown St. Paul for quite a few years and then moved to Anoka for a while. I do know it needed a fair amount of work, the ring-spar broke sometime in the mid 1990s while flying in an airshow.

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 Post subject: Re: A-26 in OK?
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Just heard about an A-26 that is being restored in OK. In a quick search I turned up this picture. My guess is this is the one. Anyone know the identity?

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What...? I have just been sorting out some old mails on my hotmail account, and found one from 2004 which mentions N7079G being under rebuild in Guthrie, OK for Calvin Burgess. I then sent a mail back to the A-26 group to check if there is any news, and then went over here. 30 sec. later I see this thread. :shock: Great to see the photo, and I think we can safely say that it is N7079G!

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 Post subject: A-26's in OK
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There are two more A-26 Invaders in Oklahoma.... at Wiley Post Airport in OKC. They are both CAF aircraft..... the first is Lady Liberty, sponsored by Dan Lawson and is currently flying.... this is a true bomber version, never having been converted to a executive transport.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/a26regis ... 9230-4.jpg

The second A-26 is the former "Daisy Mae", sn 44-35643, N-626SH, (x N-6841D) which was flying out of Arkansas...... This airframe was needing a great deal of work to return to the air. The lower right wing spar cap was discovered to be cracked, broken, garbage during an inspection.... So these guys take the A-26 apart, truck it to OKC, battle a tornado or two, had a new spar made, and installed it. They can always use another member and another set of hands....

The Sierra Hotel Sponsor Group is at the following link... Alan Brooks
http://www.contrails.us/~sh_a-26/index.htm


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I believe that this A-26 is the one that broke the spar doing a loop at an airshow.


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There is still, at least another A-26 in Oklahoma . . . this one, on display outside of a VFW in either El Reno or in Yukon (don't remember exactly right now, but I have photos somewhere . . . ) and has been on display since the late 1950s IIRC.


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 Post subject: N7079G
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Ah great. Thanks for the info on 7079G. Interesting to note that there are more under rebuild in OK too!

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Tulio wrote:
There is still, at least another A-26 in Oklahoma . . . this one, on display outside of a VFW in either El Reno or in Yukon (don't remember exactly right now, but I have photos somewhere . . . )
El Reno I think!


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Yes, there is an A-26 in El Reno, OK. I have a shot of it taken from my Citabria but have never posted pix here before....Here's some info on it.

Serial #: 44-34746
Construction #: 28025
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Name: Sonny
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2001

History:
VFW Post 382, El Reno, OK, Sept. 1957-2001.
- Trucked from Sheppard Field, TX, 1957.
- Reassembled in place.
- Displayed as "Sonny".

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E-mail it to me and I'll post it if you like.


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RickH wrote:
I believe that this A-26 is the one that broke the spar doing a loop at an airshow.


Where did you hear that it happend doing a loop? I know that the incident occured at Downtown St. Paul/Holman Field(KSTP), which is only 8nm from Minneapolis St. Paul International. I would think that for the altitude required for a loop would mean a major excursion into the class B around KMSP.

I'm not sure the photo Dan posted and the aircraft with the broken spar are the same. I just suggested it as a possible identity since I knew it went down to Oklahoma.

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I sent them to Dan, maybe he'll post them..... :wink:

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 Post subject: OK A26s
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Here is the one in El Reno.... from Slinky...

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.... and Lady Liberty...

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Out of interest anybody know where I could get a turret

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Out of interest anybody know where I could get a turret

I think Carl Scholl at Aero Trader could source you one.

http://www.aerotrader.net/

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