Douglas A/B-26 Invader

Ex-Air Spray #13 Invader walk round - Dennis Deagle














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Dennis was kind enough to send me these great shots (at his own expense) for inclusion into my site, I have added a brief note about him and would like to thank him for his time and effort in geting these photos to me..........thanks Dennis
 
Greetings.
A link lead me to your site just now.  I am a serious, aged, plastic modeller and the A-26 has always been a special to me - among several types.
 
Well done on your site. I glanced at your About Me section and was a little surprised that you are UK based and have an interest in the A-26 - I didn't read the info very closely yet, perhaps I would have discovered your mother was on an A-26 base flightpath.
 
I have a daughter who emigrated from here (Edmonton, Alberta) to Loughbourough, Leicestershire, UK and because of that I have been fortunate enough to visit Duxford.
 
Anyway, the photos I am attaching were taken by me at Edson, Alberta, Canada in September 2003 (I think).  I swear the pilot saw me and did a combat take off. I was impressed!  It is scanned from a slide. I also have plenty of slides of another Airspray AC - the pilot let me do a crawl through for detail shots at a local airshow. 
 
My own interest in military aviation arose, I believe, when my older cousins built me a balsa wood and tissue fighter of some sort when I was five - then I went on to carve them myself from solid balsa.  (I was five in 1945).  Our home was under the flight path of the Winnipeg Airport, also an RCAF training base - mostly B-25 navagation trainers; I do remember the excitement of a Vampire.  And I spent some summers near Gimli - Harvards galore every morning.  Including my cousin later - he was eventually killed on take off  in an imbalanced York here in Edmonton, on a suppy run to the DEW line.  I am short sighted so I became an Engineer.  I took flying lessons but I could not see paying all that money for something that only went 100 knots.  So I model (I will attach a photo. -  I go from Fokker D VII to modern jets, of which I don't take many photos. So the A-7 is the best photo I have on file.).
 
I dispatched the CD by Canada Post this morning.  If I had known it was that easy - as in, the outlet had bubble wrap mailers for CD's ready-to-use - I would have sent the package two weeks ago. Please let me know that it arrived - give it two weeks.
 
I do hope you find the photos worthy.  Did I tell you the flight photos aren't that sharp owing to the shutter speed/aperature I used?  But the details look good to me.  I presume you can do the captions as needed, but I can do them if you want.
 
The whole thing probably cost in the order of $40 CDN.  Please just make a donation to a worthy non-religious charity in the UK instead of a remittance to me.  How about an aircraft preservation organization or the RSPCA?
 
Dennis
 
 
 

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One of Dennis's superb models

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Another One of Dennis's models, which won gold in its class at a recent  contest .
 
See more of Dennis's work at http://www.ipmsedmonton.com/
 

 
 
 
 
The Twenty Nine detailed shots below show C-FZTC at the Namao Canadian Air Force Base, just outside of Edmonton, in 1994.

Exterior

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Cockpit

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Serial #: 44-35857
Construction #:
  29136
Civil Registration:
  N9300R
  CF-ZTC
  C-FZTC
Model(s):
  A-26C
  B-26C
Name: Lucky Jack
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002

 

History:
Madden & Smith Aircraft Corp, Miami, FL, 1964.
- Registered as N9300R.
Consolidated Air Parts Corp, Los Angeles, CA, 1966-1969.
- Stored unconverted, marked as NY ANG, Tucson, AZ, 1969.
Forest Patrol Ltd, July 1971.
- Registered as CF-ZTC.
J.D. Irving, 1979.
- Registered as C-FZTC.
Air Spray Ltd, Red Deer, Alberta, Aug. 1979-2002.
- Flown as tanker #14, Later #13 "Lucky Jack".

 

 

 


 
 
 
 
 
Misc. shots

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The three shots above were taken at Edson, Alberta, Canada in September 2003

Serial #: 44-35444
Construction #:
  28723
Civil Registration:
  N7656C
  CF-TFB
  C-FTFB
Model(s):
  A-26C
  RB-26C
Name: Miss Red Deer
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2003

 

History:
Vance Roberts, Seattle, WA, 1963-1969.
- Registered as N7656C.
Air Spray Ltd, Edmonton, Alberta, 1971.
- Registered as CF-TFB.
- Flew as tanker #4.
Air Spray Ltd, Red Deer, Alberta, June 1973-2003.
- Registered as C-FTFB.
- Converted to tanker at Chino, CA, 1975.
- Damaged due to engine fire, Calgary, Alberta, Aug. 1977.
-- Repaired.
- Flown as tanker #4/Miss Red Deer.

 

 

 

















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