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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-26/B-26/JD Invader
    Latest Model:A-26B Invader
    Last Military Serial:44-34759 USAAF
    Construction Number:28038
    Last Civil Registration:N956R
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-26B sn 44-34759 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tehran Aerospace Exhibition Center, Mehrabad International, Tehran, Tehran

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-26B.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-34759.

    1947


    Photographer: William Greeley
    Notes: Bill Odom did not make the Bendix start but he did make it to Cleveland in MIlton Reynolds A-26 Invader named Bombshell.

    To unknown owner with c/r NX67834.

    To unknown owner with c/r N67834.

    To unknown owner with c/r N28W.

    To unknown owner with c/r N956.

    To unknown owner with c/r N956R.

    13 June 1967

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL956R (A-26B, 28038) issued.

    29 October 1977

    To unknown owner with c/r N956R.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Sylmar, CA.

    Exported to Iran.

    To Tehran Aerospace Exhibition Center, Mehrabad International, Tehran, Tehran.
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    Placed on display.

    2 September 2006


    Photographer: Carl Byrne
    Notes: At Tehran Aerospace Exhibition Centre, Mehrabad Airport, Tehran, Iran

    2 September 2006


    Photographer: Carl Byrne
    Notes: At Tehran Aerospace Exhibition Centre, Mehrabad Airport, Tehran, Iran

    20 November 2012

    Civil registration, N956R, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Sylmar, CA.

    1 January 2013

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL956R (A-26B, 28038) issued.

    1 January 2013

    To unknown owner with c/r N956R.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Sylmar, CA.
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