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Serial #: 44-35696
Construction #: 28975
Civil
Registration:
N8036E
Model(s):
A-26C
B-26C
Name: My Mary Lou
Status:
Restoration
Last info: 2005
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History:
Delivered to USAF as 44-35696, 19??.
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Assigned to 17th BG (L)/95th BS, based in Pusan, Korea, named My mary Lou
- Flew 100 combat missions.
After the Korean
War it was returned to the
17th BW and reassigned to the 34th Squadron. Transferred to Louisiana ANG, and in 1957
sent to MASDC. Became N8036E in 1963.
L. B. Smith Aircraft Corp, Miami, FL, 1963.
- Registered as
N8036E.
Richard B. Almour, Tucson, AZ, 1964.
William E. Strader, Fresno, CA, 1966-1977.
Dwight Reimer, Shafter, CA,
1978-1981.
- Flown as race #26/Cotton Jenny.
(See note 1)
Courtesy Aircraft Inc, Rockford, IL, 1984.
Robert Collings
/ Collings Foundation, Stowe, MA, Sept. 20, 1985-2005
Crashed on takeoff, Kankakee, IL, June 22, 1993. ( See video )
- Under restoration for static display, Uvalde, TX, 1998-1999.
- Marked as 435696/BC-696/My Mary Lou.
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Above is 45-35696 Cotton Jenny flown by Dwight
Reimer and Wally McDonnell in No.4 Mojave Kid at the 1979 Mojave air races
Note 1.
44-35696 was painted silver when Dwight reimer owned her and when CF acquired her. She arrived in Texas
still sporting the R on her tail as well as her Race 26.
She was initially painted black
with yellow trim. It wasn't until her 2nd Koren crew chief recognized her serial number at an airshow in northern Alabama that her specific wartime history was learned. After some verification
and additional research we put her back to match late 1952.
When the Collings Foundation
acquired the plane she carried a sixgun hardnose. She was built as a C model with the glass nose. The glass nose was swapped
out during its refit as a Korean War replacement at McClellan. The C model nose was reinstalled prior to knowing why the hardnose
was on her.
Wally McDonald and Dwight both have silver A-26s. McDonald's had tip tanks and Reimer's was named "Cotton Jenny".
I realize 44-35696 was a combat vet and painted in wartime markings when owned by CF. However that was not the case when owned
by Reimer.
Above 696 at Reno in 1980
The two shots above are of N8036E when she was at Waukegan
Il. before she acquired her top turret
N8063E is seen here taxiing at the EAA Fly In at Oshkosh
The remaing three shots above were taken at an
air show in Dixon, IL
Note
NTSB Identification: CHI93DEE02 .
The docket is stored in
the Docket Management System (DMS). Please contact Records Management Division
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Sunday, June 27, 1993
in KANKAKEE, IL
Probable Cause Approval Date: 10/20/1994
Aircraft: DOUGLAS B-26B, registration: N8036E
Injuries:
2 Minor.
THE AIRPLANE'S RIGHT ENGINE LOST POWER SHORTLY AFTER LIFT-OFF.
THE PILOT SAID HE ATTEMPTED TO FEATHER THE RIGHT ENGINE PROPELLER, BUT THE PROPELLER WOULD NOT FEATHER. HE WAS UNABLE TO MAINTAIN
ALTITUDE, AND THE AIRPLANE CRASHED JUST OFF THE RUNWAY. POSTACCIDENT EXAMINATION OF THE RIGHT ENGINE DISCLOSED A FRACTURED/PARTIALLY
DISINTEGRATED PISTON IN THE NUMBER TEN CYLINDER. THE RIGHT ENGINE'S PROPELLER FEATHERING SYSTEM WAS ALSO INOPERATIVE.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable
cause(s) of this accident as follows:
the failure of the piston assembly in the number ten cylinder
of the right engine. A factor associated with the accident was the inoperative propeller feathering system for the right engine.
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