On-Mark Marketeer N7079G

[T J Johansen]

I just found some videoclips on youtube of this A-26 during take-offs around the US. A beautiful a/c that I had the chance to look over last December at Van Nuys. I am pretty sure that this is the best restored exec. Invader out there as present.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOdNkaQEco0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFr2zN9xCVc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v4meDRsqgM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92BOkpQmZFM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh5nxJKz91s

T J

[K5DH]

Thanks for the links, TJ. That was several minutes of good fun! The sound quality on the Paine Field takeoffs was very good, and sounded great on my big, powerful computer speakers.

She is a beautiful aircraft, to be sure. Clean running engines, too! One of the warbird magazines carried an article on her a few issues back. The Marketeer is a very graceful-looking modification to an already attractive airframe. I just can't get behind that pseudo-military paint scheme. If she were my ship, I would paint her in some period-representative executive livery, or perhaps in one of the paint schemes she actually wore while serving in that role. Ah, yes, one can still dream. . .

[T J Johansen]

I hear you Dean. I would really like to see something like the old "Blue Bird" colors without the star/ bar. That was a great paint job. I put on my headset when I played the videos. As you say, especially those 1080 HD clips from Paine Field makes you feel like being there.

From http://www.warbirdregistry.org



T J

[napoleon]

see
http://napoleon130.tripod.com/id648.html
For more data

[T J Johansen]

And a wonderful site for all things A-26 that Martin has created there...

T J

[kypresident]

Good to see this wonderful warbird still doing its business.

My dad flew for a the company in Kentucky that owned it when this was N707TG and he still has a huge picture of it over his desk at home when it was setting on the ramp here.

I remember the old days of going down to see all the different aircraft they had when I was young, but was not lucky enough to see it when Texas Gas owned it. (I little before my time./Mid-60s)

[Alien Invader]

I'd love to see that photo your dad has above his desk. I'm the proud (and lucky!) owner of N7079G we've owned her for 2 years now and fly her all the time and often 2-3x each week, all over the Western US with frequent cross country trips like she loves to do, e.g. last week was to MIssoula with 8 souls and 2 dogs on board. I've talked with some nice folks at Texas Gas Transmission Co. to see if they had any photos of her when they owned her but it's been so many years they couldn't find any in the archives. It'd be interesting to know more of her history as an executive transport in the 1960s and 1970s.

[ChrisDNT]

Why is it so hard, especially for the Invader for which exist zillions of amazing authentic finishes possibilities, to get at last one time an A-26 painted in an accurate historic way ?


Edit : I didn't notice at first it was an executive variant.
So why not an elegant executive scheme (if possible the one it had in the past) and not once again one of those fake WWII finishes ?

[Kyleb]

Why is it so hard, especially for the Invader for which exist zillions of amazing authentic finishes possibilities, to get at last one time an A-26 painted in an accurate historic way ?


Edit : I didn't notice at first it was an executive variant.
So why not an elegant executive scheme (if possible the one it had in the past) and not once again one of those fake WWII finishes ?

I'm just happy people are restoring and flying these incredible aircraft. After that, the rest of it seems trivial.

[JohnB]

Edit : I didn't notice at first it was an executive variant.
So why not an elegant executive scheme (if possible the one it had in the past) and not once again one of those fake WWII finishes ?

The photo above shows it in an executive scheme...just with "stars and bars" added.
A nice acknowledgement of the type's military origin, IMHO.

Because of the airframe modifications, it would look silly in a military scheme.
I like it just the way it is and am happy someone saved it and flies it.

[Sasquatch]

I'd love to see that photo your dad has above his desk. I'm the proud (and lucky!) owner of N7079G we've owned her for 2 years now and fly her all the time and often 2-3x each week, all over the Western US with frequent cross country trips like she loves to do, e.g. last week was to MIssoula with 8 souls and 2 dogs on board. I've talked with some nice folks at Texas Gas Transmission Co. to see if they had any photos of her when they owned her but it's been so many years they couldn't find any in the archives. It'd be interesting to know more of her history as an executive transport in the 1960s and 1970s.

AlienInvader...are you based at Paine Field? If so, I somehow have managed to miss you so far. Obviously--if so--I gotta get with the program!

Thanks either way...

--Tom

[Alien Invader]

No we're in the Aerodyne hangar at Renton. We go into PAE all the time for practice runs. Come by sometime for a visit with Sexy Sue if you like. //:-)

[Sasquatch]

Will do next time I'm headed down your way. I'll pm ahead to make sure you're there and okay that day for visits. Thanks for the invite!

--Tom