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This is a few months old (hey, I can’t catch all the news every day) but a Douglas A-20 Havoc has finally been restored to airworthy condition.

A-20 First Flight from Lewis on Vimeo.

The A-20 was a damn fine looking plane. After all, Ed Heinemann designed her!

A hard working light bomber, she fit in between the medium bombers such as the B-25 and B-26, and the fighter bombers such as the P-38 and P-47.  Prime targets in Europe might include airfield and railroad marshaling yards, while service in the Pacific might see it raiding harbors to attack shipping, and of course, airfields.

The replacement for the A-20 arrived at the very tail end of World War II, another Heinemann design for Douglas, the A-26 Invader. Confusingly, after the Martin B-26 was retired from service, the A-26 was redesignated the B-26 (the Air Force did away temporarily with the “Attack” category of planes), though it was later re-redesignated as the A-26 again.