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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-26/B-26/JD Invader
    Latest Model:RB-26C Invader
    Last Military Serial:44-35590 USAF
    Construction Number:28869
    Last Civil Registration:N3248G
    Compressed ID:Douglas RB-26C sn 44-35590 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fantasy of Flight / Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-26C-40-DT by Douglas at Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-35590.

    18 September 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 44-35590.

    June 1948

    Redesignated as B-26C.

    Circa 1952

    Converted to a RB-26C.

    By 1959

    To E. J. Quick with new c/r N3248G.

    13 May 1959

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL3248G (B-26B, 44-35590) issued.

    From 1962 to 1963

    Withdrawn from use.
    Open storage, weathered USAF black scheme,Chicago-Midway Airport, IL.

    1963

    To Ray Karrels, Port Washington, WI with new c/r N3248G.

    1968

    To Victory Air Museum/Earl Reinert, Air Estates Inc Airport, Mundelein, IL keeping c/r N3248G.
    Markings added: 435590, Nightmare

    To Victory Air Museum/Earl Reinert, Air Estates Inc Airport, Mundelein, IL.
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    5 June 1980


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Victory Air Museum

    24 May 1985


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Victory Air Museum

    From September 1987 to 1996

    To Earl T. Reinert, Arlington Heights, IL keeping c/r N3248G.

    19 June 1991

    To Reinert Earl, Arlington Heights, IL keeping c/r N3248G.

    1996

    Stored dismantled at Rockford, IL.

    1996

    To Kermit Weeks, Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N3248G.

    March 1997


    Photographer: Tom Roberts Collection
    Notes: Photographed at the Fantasy of Flight in Florida.

    Based at Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
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    Stored dismantled and un-restored. Reported to be intended for parting out for other aircraft restoration. However, in 2006 Warbird Information Exchange said it was being restored at Aero Trader.

    1 January 2013

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL3248G (B-26B, 44-35590) issued.

    15 May 2015

    Civil registration, N3248G, cancelled.
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