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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-26/B-26/JD Invader
    Latest Model:Monarch 26
    Last Military Serial:435440 ALA
    Construction Number:28719
    Last Civil Registration:C-FMSB
    Compressed ID:Rock Island Monarch 26 sn 435440 AL...
    Latest Owner or Location:Wings Over Miami Air Museum, Kendall Tamiami Executive Airport, Miami, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-26C-35-DT by Douglas at Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-35440.

    From Circa February 1954 to October 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 435440.
    For service in Indochina.

    1966

    To Rock Island Oil (and) Refining Co, Wichita, KS, with new c/r N6838D.

    1966

    Converted to a Monarch 26 by Rock Island.

    2 December 1970

    To Aero Union Corp, Chico, CA keeping c/r N6838D.

    June 1971

    To Conair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford, BC, with new c/r CF-MSB.

    Operated as fire service #325.

    26 July 1974

    Civil registration, N6838D, cancelled.

    1977

    To Conair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford, BC, with new c/r C-FMSB.

    By 5 June 1986

    Operated as fire service #25.

    5 June 1986


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: At Abbotsford, BC, Canada

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    To Wings Over Miami Museum, Kendall Tamiami Executive Airport, Miami, FL.
    Markings added: 931
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    15 July 1995

    Markings Applied: BG-O, 435440

    15 July 1995


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Travis AFB Museum. CA

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Travis AFB.

    Markings Applied: 931, 931 FAL
    Displayed as a Bay of Pigs Memorial. Painted in a Cuban Air Force colour scheme.
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    16 February 2005


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Tamiami, Florida

    To Wings Over Miami Air Museum, Kendall Tamiami Executive Airport, Miami, FL.
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    10 March 2013


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Tamiami, Florida
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