41-39230

A-26B-20 Invader
Builders: Douglas Aircraft Company
Operators: United States Air Force
Number Built: 153 (99-DL, 54-DT)
First Built: Jul 1944
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
Type: Light Attack Bomber
Wet Weight: 31,000 lbs
Length: 50' 9" (with guns) 49' 11" (without guns)
Height: 18' 6" (5.64 m)
Wingspan: 70' (21.34 m)
Wing Area: 540 Sq. Feet (50.17 m²)
Speed: 212 mph
Max Speed: 370 mph
Ceiling: 31,300 feet
Powerplant: 2x Pratt & Whitney R-2800-27
Horsepower: 2,000 each
Fuel Capacity: 1,600 US Gallons
Range:
Crew: 3
Passengers: 1
ARMAMENT
Nose Guns: 6x .50 Machine Guns
Dorsal Turret: 2x .50 Machine Guns
Ventral Turret: 2x .50 Machine Guns
Payload: 4,000 lbs internal 2,000 lbs wing points
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See also: List of Invaders by Serial Number

Operational History

19 Aug 1944 - Rolled out of Long Beach factory.
23 Aug 1944 - Accepted into USAF Inventory
24 Sep 1944 - Assigned to 9th Air Force, European Theater of Operations
6 Aug 1945 - Returned to Hunter AFB, 485th Base Unit
8 Aug 1945 - Ferried to Grenada AFB by 4255th Base Unit
4 Feb 1946 - Delivered to Hobbs AFB
30 Apr 1946 - Reassigned to 4160th Base Unit, Hobbs AFB
31 Mar 1937 - Assigned to AMCSA
7 Jan 1948 - 4127th Base Unit, Hobbs AFB
7 Jan 1949 - 4160th Base Unit, McLellan AFB
3 Oct 1954 - Struck from USAF Record.

Sold to Civilian market.
H. R. Wells, 19??
- Registered as N9682C.
Flight Inc, Dallas TX, 1963-1966.
D & D Aero Spraying Inc., Rantoul, KS, 1969-1980.
- Flew as Tanker #105.
Harley Wilke/Confederate Air Force, Harlingen, TX, 1980-1982.
CAF/Commemorative Air Force, Harlingen (later Midland), TX, August21, 1982-present.
- Flew as 13930/P/Panhandle's Pride.
- Long term restoration, North Vegas, NV, 1988-1996.
- Fitted with A-26C nose.
- First Flight, June 10, 1996.
- Flew as 139230/N/Vegas Vixen.
- Renamed Lady Liberty, 2003.

Accidents

Unknown

Crew

Unknown

Disposition

Operated by Commemorative Air Force as of 2018.

Images

41-39230 in flight as Lady Liberty.

41-39230 as civil registry N9682C, "Lady Liberty" parked during an air show.

A close up of Lady Liberty.

Sources

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