Military Ownership History of the NEAM A-26 Douglas Invader (43-22499)

• November 15, 1944 -Manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company, Tulsa, OK and delivered to the USAAF at Hunter AAF, GA
• December 1944 – To Ninth Air Force, European Theater of Operations
• December 1944 – August 1945 – Service with the 671^st Bombardment Squadron of the 416^th Bombardment Group (Light)
• August 17, 1945 – Returned to US. 487^th AAF Base Unit. Hunter Field, GA
• January 31, 1945 – Transferred to 4255^th AAF Base Unit, Grenada Field, MS (storage)
• March 19, 1946 – Transferred to Air Transport Command, Ferrying Division
• March 31, 1946 – Transferred to 4160^th AAF Base Unit (Air Materiel Command), Hobbs AAF (storage)
• August 5, 1947 – Transferred to 4135^th Base Unit, Hill AFB, Ogden, UT (ground instructional training)
• June 1, 1948 – Storage “non-cocooned”. Redesignated from A-26C to B26-C.
• March 1, 1949 – Redesignated as Utility Transportation Aircraft.
• March 11, 1952 – Ogden Air Materiel Area. Depot modification.
• March 27, 1952 – Transferred to Far East Air Forces (FEACOM), 6400^th Air Depot Wing
• April 30, 1952 – May 15, 1952 – Enroute to Tachikawa, Japan.
• June 3, 1952 – Transferred to 126^th Bomb Wing (Light), Laon/Couvron Air Base, France.
• February 3, 1953 – Transferred to Rhein Main AB, Germany attached to the 60^th Troop Carrier Wing.
• May 24, 1953 – Transferred to the 38^th Bomb Wing (Light), Furstenfeldbruck AB, Germany.
• October 12, 1954 – Transferred to 7373^rd Maintenance Group, Chateauroux, France.
• October 1955 – Transferred to Fairey Aviation Co., Manchester, England for contract modification.
• July 1956 – Transferred to Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.
• August 1957 – Designated as ”excess”.
• October 1957 – Dropped from inventory.