Douglas A-20G Havoc 43-9436, which was close to being acquired by the RAF Museum in 2009, is now nearing completion at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The former US Army Air Forces light bomber arrived at Pima from Australia in July 2018, and following two years of restoration work reassembly began in August 2020. Operated by the 89th Bombardment Squadron, 3rd Bombardment Group, 43-9436 force-landed in a swamp in Papua New Guinea's Ramu Valley on 3 May 1944. It was recovered by a team from the Royal Australian Air Force Museum in October 1994, the airframe being lifted from its resting place by a Mil Mil-26 helicopter. The Havoc was then transported to RAAFB Amberley in Queensland, where the mainplanes and other parts were used during the restoration of A-20G 42-86786 The Hell'n Pelican Ⅱ which had been recovered from Amaimon, PNG in 1984, and the former RAAF Douglas Boston Ⅲ, A28-8, which is now on display in the RAAF Museum at Point Cook. The stripped-out hulk of 43-9436 then went into storage at RAAFB Laverton, Western Australia, before being acquired by Murray Griffiths/Precision Aerospace Productions at Wangaratta, Victoria in July 2002. It was planned to restore the Havoc at Wangaratta for the RAF Museum, but after that sale fell through it was snapped up by the Pima Air and Space Museum.
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