Any updates on A-20 43-9435 "Big Nig"?

[Travisd80elcam]

Is there any news and/or info floating about on A-20 43-9435 "Big Nig"? A quick Google search came up with the latest info i could find here http://www.aviationmuseumguide.co.uk/ne ... _havoc.php and a Facebook link here with some photos that seem from some time ago https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 308&type=3 and a quick look on pacificwrecks doesn't show an update in a good amount of time. link here http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/a-20/43-9436.html any info would be awesome, i am pretty sure i am not the only one wondering what has happened with this aircraft. It seems that the aircraft was traded sometime in 2008/2009 for a Spitfire to the RAF museum, and by checking the RAF websites blog of recent news. I haven't come across anything other that what i have linked. As always thanks for the help a head of time if any one has any info.

Travis

[DaveM2]

Still at Precision Aero AFAIK.

[PeterA]

I was passing by last October...2013.

[Hemiman]

[Rossco]

I think the untimely passing of Murray would have maybe slowed things a bit.

[Hemiman]

The one recovered and being restored is the original "BN" 43-9436 Tail letter V . Pic I posted was as a reference to the ones that flew with that name/nose art.

[airnutz]

BN's looking good! Thanks for the pic...
The Goose in the background has quite a bit of history...
www.wdaguy.com/FP-514.html

[Mark_Pilkington]

What seems really good is that the RAF Museum seems intent on displaying this aircraft in its own Pacific USAAF combat veteran identity, rather than painting it in some psydo "RAF" colour scheme to represent a Havoc etc, the RAF Museum already has a RAAF Hudson and RAAF Seagull V also displayed in their own colours, rather than put into RAF schemes.

Wouldn't it be nice if the USAF Museum could consider the same thing and put their Spitfire Mark V back into its RAF 54 Sqn colours as a Defender of Darwin against the Japanese or their Beaufighter Mk Ic back into its RAAF 30 Sqn colours, I'm not sure but I suspect this airframe might well be a Battle of the Bismarck Sea Veteran?

Its one thing to put non-descript training or post war examples (ie B25J's etc) into the colours of a famous wartime sqn etc, but destroying or hiding history to portray history is silly, the 3 dimensional size and technology can displayed next to models and photos to link the historical to the physical.

Regards

Mark Pilkington