A-26 Static Displays
Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:33 pm
Ellen and I were in Oklahoma City last weekend and wandered over to El Reno to photograph and crawl around on the A-26B-66-DL 44-34746 at their VFW Club. GARY HILTON started this thread thhttp://warbirdinformationexchange.org ... 177528read pertaining to the same subject last year:
The airplane is pretty much all there, with various dents and many coats of paint from the fifty years
of display. Here are some of the photos we took:
The airplane looks fairly nice from that distance, but it does have problems. This corrosion blow-out is inboard of the r/h nacelle at the aft spar.
It's in need of a little rigging help in the nose gear well, too!
The gun nose is complete and original:
The turret ring is evident in this shot:
This is the dedication plaque on the outboard side of the right nacelle, complete with some interesting model designations:
While I'm posting A-26 photos, here are a few of A-26C-40-DT 44-35627 at the Dodge City Municipal Airport entrance:
Enjoy!
Scott
The airplane is pretty much all there, with various dents and many coats of paint from the fifty years
of display. Here are some of the photos we took:
The airplane looks fairly nice from that distance, but it does have problems. This corrosion blow-out is inboard of the r/h nacelle at the aft spar.
It's in need of a little rigging help in the nose gear well, too!
The gun nose is complete and original:
The turret ring is evident in this shot:
This is the dedication plaque on the outboard side of the right nacelle, complete with some interesting model designations:
While I'm posting A-26 photos, here are a few of A-26C-40-DT 44-35627 at the Dodge City Municipal Airport entrance:
Enjoy!
Scott
Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:59 pm
Just sad to airplanes like that.
Scott......
Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:06 pm
A few years back there seemed like a lot of magazine articles on the A-26 and seemed like a lot were flying. But now I never hear anything of any A-26's flying? Did they all go static or something? 
Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:25 pm
OUCH!!!!!!!!! painful to see.
Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:16 am
Aircraft DO NOT belong on sticks.
Robbie
Robbie