History:
Built as A-26B-56-DL,
44-34423, by the Douglas Aircraft Company at Long Beach, California.
Jun 4, 1945. Delivered to the USAAF.
To 4127th AAF Base Unit (Air Materiel Command) at McClellan AAF, California ¾ storage
Feb 1949.... To Sacramento Air Materiel
Command at McClellan AAF ¾ storage (redesignated as a B-26B)
Feb 1951.... To Douglas Aircraft at Long
Beach ¾ overhaul
Apr 1951.... To Ogden Air Materiel Area,
Hill AFB, Utah ¾ converted to B-26C and prepared for delivery to the Far East Air Force for the Korean
War
May 1951... To 3rd Bombardment
Wing (Light), FEAF, Iwakuni AB, Japan
Jul 1951...... To 13th Aircraft
Repair Station, FEAF, Tachikawa AB, Japan
Aug 1951... To 452nd Bombardment
Wing (Light), FEAF, Pusan AB, Korea and Miho AB, Japan
May 1952... To 17th Bombardment
Wing (Light), FEAF, Pusan AB, Korea and Miho AB, Japan
Mar 1953... To 6408th Maintenance
Support Group, FEAF, Kisarazu AB, Japan
May 1953... To San Francisco, California
Jul 1953...... To Ogden Materiel Area,
Hill AFB, Utah ¾ converted back to B-26B
Apr 1954.... To 184th Reconnaissance
(Tactical) Squadron (Air National Guard), Fort Smith MAP, Arizona
Nov 1956... To 184th Bomber (Tactical)
Squadron (ANG), Rosecrans MAP, St. Joseph, Montana
Jul 1957...... To Arizona Aircraft Storage
Branch (AMC), Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona
Jan 1958..... Dropped from inventory
Oct 1960.... To Stahmann Farms, Las Cruces,
New Mexico as N9594Z. Initially delivered to Hamilton Aircraft at Tucson, Arizona for removal of military equipment
Jan 1961..... To new airfield at Stahmann
Farms. Used as a corporate transport and to protect pecan crops from spring and fall frosts. Converted as a long-range Cold
War escape vehicle to Peru with addition of nose fuel cell, On Mark tip tanks, spar and leading edge reinforcements, cabin
seats, toilet and lighting and ventilation systems. Little used after 1965
1972........... Sold to Victor Newman
of El Paso, Texas ¾ two in-flight engine failures.
1974........... Sold to Conair Aviation, Abbotsford,
British Columbia, Canada as C-GHLI and converted to a forest fire control airtanker for the 1975 fire season
Jul 1, 1984.. Damaged by fire Jul 1,
1984 at Williams Lake air tanker base during a fuel pump change ¾ to local scrap yard
1990........... To Aero Nostalgia, Stockton,
California for static rebuild as a B-26C for Fairchild Heritage Foundation, Fairchild AFB, Washington.
Researched by: Robert Stitt,
