A-26 Invader 

Fire fighting plane

These photos were taken by Robert Pionteck

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This is an A-26 Invader which now belongs to Air Spray of Red Deer Alberta, Canada.  It was purchased in Washington State,  USA and flown back to Canada for conversion.  It was one of three A-26 Invaders which appeared as Tanker No. 58 in the movie 'Always' with Richard Dryfus, Holly Hunter and John Goodman.  Some of the modifications required are, complete overhaul, 2 door drop system as opposed to U.S. 4 door system, etc.  Of specific note on this machine is the 'bubble window' on the port side and the modified leading edge of the wings along with wing fences, different wheel assemblies and chromed nose landing gear strut, antenae suit fwd of the cockpit glazing. It appears that this a/c was flown from the right had seat.


The 16 photos directly below were taken by Robert Pionteck

 

 

 

If you feel there is a need for descriptions for this walk around, then feel free to type them up and quote the photo numbers above and forward the descriptions to Steve Bamford, so they can be put up into this walkaround.  We could really use our viewers help with this.  An expert on this aircraft could write much better descriptions than we could.