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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-26/B-26/JD Invader
    Latest Model:B-26B Invader
    Last Military Serial:44-34538 USAAF
    Construction Number:27817
    Last Civil Registration:N34538
    Compressed ID:Douglas B-26B sn 44-34538 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Martin Aviation Inc, Santa Ana, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-26B-61-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, Califoria, USA.

    From Circa 1944 to December 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-34538.

    Redesignated as B-26B.

    3 January 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 44-34538.
    For service in Indochina.

    22 October 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-34538.

    November 1955

    Withdrawn from use.
    And stored at Clark AFB, Philippines.

    March 1957

    To Rock Island Oil and Refining Co., Wichita, KS with new c/r N6839D.

    From 1966 to 1987

    To Hughes Aircraft Co, Van Nuys, CA keeping c/r N6839D.


    Photographer: John Abel
    Notes: Hughes Aircraft co. file photo, Now Raytheon flight test

    9 September 1987

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL34538 (A-26B, 27817) issued.

    14 May 1990

    To A and T Productions Inc, Pacific Palisades, CA with new c/r N34538.

    28 August 1993


    Photographer: Nick Taylor
    Notes: Taking off at the 1993 Hawthorne Air Fair (KHHR)

    1995


    Photographer: Unknown

    1995


    Photographer: Unknown

    October 1996


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Van Nuys Airport, CA

    12 April 1999

    To Martin Aviation Inc, Santa Ana, CA keeping c/r N34538.

    To A and T Productions, Pacific Palisades, CA.
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    To Lyon Air Museum, John Wayne International Airport (Orange County Airport), Santa Ana, CA.
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    Markings Applied: Feeding Frenzy, BC-538

    5 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the Lyon Air Museum, John Wayne International Airport (Orange County Airport), Santa Ana, California, United States

    5 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the Lyon Air Museum, John Wayne International Airport (Orange County Airport), Santa Ana, California, United States

    21 July 2018


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Lyon Air Museum, John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, CA.

    11 November 2019

    To Martin Aviation Inc, Santa Ana, CA keeping c/r N34538.
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