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INVADER/44-39696

Over Alabama 1991, photo by Patrick Bunce

       
Serial #: 44-35696
Construction #: 28975
Civil Registration:
  N8036E
  N26RP
  Model(s):
  A-26C Invader
  B-26C Invader
Name: My Mary Lou
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2005

History:
Delivered to USAF as 44-35696, 19??.
- Assigned to 17th BG (L)/95th BS, based in Pusan, Korea.
- Flew 100 combat missions.
Bill Strader, 19??.
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.
Courtesy Aircraft Inc, Rockford, IL, 1984.
Robert Collings/Collings Foundation, Stowe, MA, September 20, 1985-2005.
- Crashed on takeoff, Kankakee, IL, June 22, 1993.
- Under restoration for static display, Uvalde, TX, 1998-1999.
- Marked as 435696/BC-696/My Mary Lou.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Collings Foundation
Photo Source(s):
Patrick Bunce via Collings Foundation
Bill Young via Collings Foundation
Ted Jamison via Collings Foundation
Rick Harris/Collings Foundation

Research Assistance:
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