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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-26/B-26/JD Invader
    Latest Model:A-26C-25-DT Invader
    Last Military Serial:43-22612 USAAF
    Construction Number:18759
    Last Civil Registration:N3710G
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-26C-25-DT sn 43-22612 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Duane A. Egli, San Antonio, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-26C-25-DT by Douglas at Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-22612.

    To unknown owner with c/r N3710G.

    16 April 1965

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR3710G (A-26C, 43-22612) issued.

    23 July 1967


    Photographer: Ron Olsen


    Photographer: Ron Olsen

    27 May 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: In action at the 1978 RAF Bassingbourn Airshow.

    Circa 1 June 1978


    Photographer: Alan Chudleigh
    Notes: Taken at Duxford UK in June 1978

    12 August 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: A-26C Invader Double Trouble at the 1979 Coventry Airshow

    11 May 1980


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Innsworth Airshow, Staverton, Gloucester

    28 July 1980

    To Duane A. Egli, San Antonio, TX keeping c/r N3710G.

    13 September 1980


    Photographer: Han de Ridder
    Notes: Taken exactly one week before the fatal crash at Biggin Hill. Scanned slide.

    13 September 1980


    Photographer: Han de Ridder
    Notes: Taken during an airshow at Rotterdam Airport (RTM/EHRD), exactly one week before the fatal crash at Biggin Hill. Scanned slide.

    21 September 1980

    Crashed.
    Went down during an airshow at Biggin Hill, UK. Still one of the most controversial crashes in airshow history.

    21 September 1980


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1980 photo at Biggin Hill - just a few hours before its fatal crash

    Written off.

    18 June 2013

    Civil registration, N3710G, cancelled.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR3710G (A-26C, 43-22612) issued.
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