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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-26/B-26/JD Invader
    Latest Model:STOL 26
    Last Military Serial:44-35721 USAAF
    Construction Number:29000
    Last Civil Registration:N9425Z
    Latest Owner or Location:Pond Warbirds Llc, Reno, NV

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-26C-45-DT by Douglas at Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-35721.

    From By 1963 to By 1966

    To Central Oregon Airial Co Inc, Bend, OR with new c/r N9425Z.

    Operated as fire service #F77.

    From 1966 to By 1992

    To Lynch Air Tankers, Billings, MT keeping c/r N9425Z.

    September 1968

    Operated as fire service #A24.

    September 1968


    Photographer: Neil Aird
    Notes: At Billings

    Converted to a STOL 26 by Lynch Air Tankers at Billings, Montana, USA.
    The modifications were made by Lynch.

    Operated as fire service #57.

    6 July 1973

    To Lynch Air Tankers Inc, Billings, MO keeping c/r N9425Z.

    1988

    Flew in the movie Always.

    1988

    Markings Applied: Fire Eaters, 57

    August 1991


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Billings, MT

    From September 1992 to By 1997

    Based at Planes of Fame East/Robert J. Pond, Eden Prairie, MN.
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    1993


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA

    By 1993

    Markings Applied: Invader

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Planes of Fame East, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

    1993

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: Invader, NAVY, BP, 435721
    The work was carried out at Chino, CA.

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.

    26 July 1993

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX9425Z (B-26C, 44-35721) issued.

    1997

    To Palm Springs Air Museum/Pond Warbirds Llc/Bob Pond, Palm Springs, CA keeping c/r N9425Z.

    January 2001


    Photographer: Ross Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, CA.

    3 July 2001

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Saint Cloud, MN keeping c/r N9425Z.

    Operated by Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, CA.
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    14 April 2012

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Saint Cloud, MN keeping c/r N9425Z.

    28 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: On display at the Palm Springs Air Museum, California

    4 October 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Palm Springs Air Museum, CA.

    13 February 2018

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Reno, NV keeping c/r N9425Z.


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    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall

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    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

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    Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger

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