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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-26/B-26/JD Invader
    Latest Model:B-26B Invader
    Last Military Serial:44-34148 USAF
    Construction Number:27427
    Last Civil Registration:N6842D
    Compressed ID:Douglas B-26B sn 44-34148 USAF cn 2...
    Latest Owner or Location:Consolidated Aero Export Corp, North Hollywood, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-26B-45-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, Califoria, USA.

    19 February 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-34148.

    By January 1946

    Transferred to 4255th AAF Base Unit, Greneda AAF. MS.

    By March 1946

    Transferred to 4160th AAF Base Unit, Hobbs AAF, NM.

    1947

    Transferred to 4127th AAF Base Unit, McClellan Field, CA.

    17 September 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 44-34148 as a B-26B.

    Circa 1949


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Sheppard AFB, Texas.

    Transferred to 106th Bomb Group (Light), New York ANG, Floyd Bennett Field, NY.

    After May 1951

    Transferred to 102nd BS, 106th BG (L), New York ANG, Floyd Bennett Field, NY.

    October 1957

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    By 1966

    To Rock Island Oil and Refining Co., Wichita, KS with new c/r N6842D.
    Was to have been converted to a Monarch 26-ntu.

    By 1969

    Assigned to Hutchinson, KS for storage.

    1970

    To Consolidated Aero Export Corp, Los Angeles, CA keeping c/r N6842D.

    24 August 1973

    Civil registration, N6842D, cancelled.

    1 August 2023

    To Consolidated Aero Export Corp, North Hollywood, CA with new c/r N6842D.
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