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Serial #: 44-35752
Construction #:
29031
Civil Registration:
N8627E
CF-KBZ
C-FKBZ
N81797
Model(s):
A-26C
B-26C
TB-26C
Name: Rude Invader
Status: Stored
Last info: 2006
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History:
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31 May 1945 |
Manufactured by Douglas Aircraft, Tulsa OK and delivered to the USAAF |
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May 1945 |
To Tulsa Modification Center OK |
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August 1945 |
To Salinas AAF CA (Fourth Air Force) |
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September 1945 |
To Love AAF TX |
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October 1945 |
To 4255th AAF Base Unit (Air Materiel Command), Grenada AAF MS (for storage)
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February 1946 |
To 4160th AAF Base Unit (AMC), Hobbs AAF NM (storage) |
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June 1947 |
To 4127th AF Base Unit (AMC), McClellan AFB CA |
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March 1948 |
To 401st AF Base Unit (Air Defense Command), Hamilton AFB CA (to B-26C) |
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September 1948 |
To 78th Air Base Group (ADC), Hamilton AFB |
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October 1948 |
To 78th Maintenance Support Group (ADC), Hamilton AFB |
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Noverber 1949 |
To 3499th Technical Training Wing (Air Training Command), Chanute AFB IL
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January 1950 |
To 2753rd Aircraft Storage Squadron (AMC), Pyote AFB TX |
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Novermber 1950 |
To Tactical Air Command, Langley AFB VA (to TB-26C) |
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May 1951 |
To Tactical Air Command, Langley AFB VA (to TB-26C) |
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January 1954 |
To 4500th Headquarters Support Squadron (TAC), Langley AFB |
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April 1958 |
To Arizona Aircraft Storage Branch (AMC), Davis-Monthan AFB AZ |
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August 1958 |
Dropped from inventory as surplus |
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1966 |
Rock Island Oil & Refining Co, Wichita, Kansas Registered at N8627E
Planned Conversion to Monarch 26, not completed, Open Storage Hutchinson,
KS |
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1969 |
Donaire, Inc. Pheonix, Arizona |
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1970 - 1971 |
Thomas W Hammon, Pheonix, Arizona |
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6/1972 - 1973 |
Kenting Aircraft, Ltd, Toronto, Ontario Registered as CF-KBZ |
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1973 - 1988 |
Conair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford, BC Registered as C-FKBZ |
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1979 |
Registered as C-FKBZ , Flew as Tanker #27 |
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1/15/1988 |
Canadian Warplane Heritage, Mount Hope, Ontario |
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6/1989 |
Courtesy Aircraft Inc, Rockford, IL, Registered as N81797 |
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1989 |
Vern Rayburn, Boston, MA, - Flew as 435752/Rude Invader |
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1991 |
Withdrawn from use, stored Reilly Aviation, Kissimee, FL |
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2/2006 |
Donated to Carolinas Aviation Museum, Charlotte, NC |
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The Museum's A-26 was donated by Mr. Vern Reyburn, the Founder and
Chief Executive Officer of Eclipse Aviation Corporation. The donation was arranged by Mr. Frank Lang, who was Mr. Reyburn's Chief
Pilot on the MATS Constellation. The Belk Foundation, of Charlotte, North Carolina donated the funds to transport this historic
aircraft from Tom Reilly's restoration facility in Kissimee, Florida, back to the Museum. The aircraft will undergo a complete
restoration to its former glory by Museum staff
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