That's the Douglas A-26 that's sitting out at Archerfield. It was in the
Hawker Pacific hangar until a couple of weeks ago when they moved it
out to the flightline. Presumably that's when this photo was taken. This
particular bird is set up for fire-bombing.
According to this page:
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/reddeer06-airspray.htm
"C-FPGP has served faithfully as Tanker 2; this A-26C Invader has c/n
29177. At the time of writing (Dec06) "Golf Papa" has been ferried to
Australia (Oct06) for a new owner: Randall MacFarlane; he intends to
repaint in Korean War colours and fly it as 44-34364/BC-364 in the
Australian airshow circuit. This ferry flight to Australia was a show of
strength: in spite of its age (built in 1945) it completed the 13.768
kms stretch victorious, in spite of encountering an earthquake and a
tropical cyclone en route, arriving at Brisbane-Archerfield on 25Oct06.
It was subsequently reregistered as VH-VNI for Aviation Investments Pty
Ltd of Archerfield on 04jan08."
Randall MacFarlane is the Managing Director of MacAir.
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