Invader under way

摘要

Nick Leach's Douglas TB-26B Invader 43-22653 is under restoration to airworthy status at Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia. Nick, CEO to specialist charter operator Hevi Lift, has aimed his small but specialised and determined restoration team at the Invader while his Douglas C-47A awaits a second zero-timed engine.rnThe 1943, Oklahoma-built, TB-26B had been shipped to Australia after an interim life with Airspray Canada as C-GPTW. Now, with the interior stripped out and partially re-finished with zinc chromate and the exterior paintwork scrubbed back to bare metal, the specialists are turning their hand to sourcing two low- or zero-timed Pratt & Whitney R-2800s and other missing components before re-assembly.