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Serial #: 41-39161
Construction #:
6874
Civil Registration:
N1470V
N317V
N317W
N26RP
Model(s):
A-26B
B-26B
On Mark
Marketeer
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last
info: 2004
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History:
Registered as N1470V by ???, 19??.
Humphrey's
Gold Corp, FL, 1956.
- Registered as N317V.
Humphrey's Engineering Co, Denver, CO, 1963-1966.
Metropolitan State
College, Denver, CO, 1969.
- Registered as N317W.
Air Mayo Inc, Lakewood, CO, 1972.
Slaco Inc, Fort Lauderdale, FL,
1977.
Robert P. Lammerts, Oklahoma City, OK, Sep. 1981-1984.
- Registered as N26RP.
ADA Aircraft Museum, Oklahoma
City, OK, 1986-1990.
Colonel Aircraft Sales, Oklahoma City, OK, May 1991-1995.
- Flown as 436874/L.
Gerald Yagen/The Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach, CA, Nov. 1996-2004.
- Under restoration to airworthy, Norfolk, VA, 1996-2004.
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The above photo was generously donated by Zane Adams of Arlington, TX
The above two shot shows "161" ( before and after) at the Fort Worth
International Airfest on October 17, 1987, the landing gear collapsed as the pilot taxied to the hangar.
So the story goes " The A-26 was at Meacham for a Chuckie airshow when the one of the main gear folded while taxiing. Chuckie
told us that Tommy Thomas owned it at the time. It was parked inside the infamous fence in front of Chuckie's hangar.
Jr.
and someone else showed up and installed a junkyard engine ( they didn't have enough oil for the engine so they went around
the airport and got the oil they needed from the waste barrels of the FBO's) and prop on the bad side, worked on the gear
lock and proceeded to fly it out. Things didn't go well on the takeoff and it was aborted. Turned out that there was a problem
with the nose gear shimmy damper and they darn near shook the nose off of it. They taxiied back and parked it. They also crudely
patched the right side canopy clamshell with a crude fiberglass and resin patch".
It was repaired and subsequently
ferried to Paris, Texas, where it sat for a number of years. The plane was purchased in 1996 and trucked to the Fighter Factory
in Virginia where it is in the final stages of total restoration.
If you look closely you can see the bent prop on the port side.
The above 2 photo's were generously donated by Zane Adams of Arlington, TX
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