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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-26/B-26/JD Invader
    Latest Model:Marksman
    Last Military Serial:44-34766 USAAF
    Construction Number:28045
    Last Civil Registration:N26BK
    Compressed ID:On Mark Engineering Marksman sn 44-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Thermco Aviation, Coachella, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-26B.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-34766.
    Directly to Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) without entering USAAF service.

    To unknown owner with c/r NX67807.

    Converted to a Marksman by On Mark Engineering at Van Nuys, Califoria, USA.

    To unknown owner with c/r N67807.

    To unknown owner with c/r N1243.

    To unknown owner with c/r N910G.

    To unknown owner with c/r N9150.

    To unknown owner with c/r N26BK.

    By 30 August 1947

    To unknown owner with c/r N67807.

    From 30 August 1947 to 1 September 1947

    Raced as #91.
    The race was from Van Nuys, CA, to Cleveland. Competed at the National Air Races Cleveland in the Bendix Reciprocating Division race. The primary pilot was Dianna Cyrus. Started the One Mile Course race, but did not finish. Got lost and landed in Michigan.

    23 December 1955

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL26BK (A-26B, 28045) issued.

    September 1986


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Topeka Airshow, Topeka, KS.

    August 1988


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA

    By 27 October 1990

    Markings Applied: BC-766, J, 434766

    27 October 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: Warner Robins AFB Air Show

    10 March 1993


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Titusville, Florida

    7 November 1994

    To Thermco Aviation, Van Nuys, CA with new c/r N26BK.

    Based at Van Nuys Airport, Los Angeles, CA.
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    19 November 1997

    To Thermco Aviation, Coachella, CA keeping c/r N26BK.

    26 July 2023

    To unknown owner with c/r N26BK.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Mount Pleasant, TX.

    4 May 2024

    To unknown owner with c/r N26BK.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Mount Pleasant, TX.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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