The

Douglas A-20 Havoc The Douglas A-20 Havoc (company designation DB-7) is an American medium bomber, attack aircraft, night intruder, night fighter, and reconnaissance aircraft of World War II. Designed to meet an Army Air Corps requirement for a bomber, it was o ...

is an American attack/light bomber/night fighter aircraft of

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. On September 20, 1944 the last

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A-20K Havoc was produced by Douglas, with 7098 having been built by Douglas and 380 under license by

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. The Havoc was quickly replaced in

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service by the Douglas A-26, the

RAAF "Through Adversity to the Stars" , colours = , colours_label = , march = , mascot = , anniversaries = RAAF Anniversary Commemoration ...

replaced them with Bristol Beaufighters, and the

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with the de Havilland Mosquito. One of the last substantial users was the ' ( Brazilian Air Force) who continued using the A-20 until the late 1950s. So quickly was the A-20 phased out of service and scrapped that, by the early 1960s, the aircraft was on the verge of extinction with only six complete airframes known in existence. Currently, due to numerous expeditions into the jungles of

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, as well as Russian crash sites, additional restorable airframes are being discovered and the number of intact aircraft growing.

Survivors

Australia

;On display ;;A-20G *42-86786 ''The Hell'N Pelican II'' – RAAF Amberley Heritage Centre

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. To be held at Amberley until a facility to hold the aircraft is built at the

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Port Moresby (; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New ...

. ;;Boston III *RAAF A28-8, RAAF Sqn Code DU-J, RAF s/n AL907 –

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, RAAF Base Point Cook in

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. ;Under restoration or in storage ;;A-20G *42-86615 – in storage at Precision Aerospace at the

Wangaratta Airport Wangaratta Airport is located about south of Wangaratta, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia just off the Hume Highway. It provides for general aviation, maintenance, an aero club, emergency services and occasional RAAF flights. See also * ...

Brazil

;On display ;;A-20K *44-0539 – Museu Aeroespacial, Campo dos Afonsos in

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Finland

;Submerged ;;A-20?? *An A-20 plane was found during the

Nord Stream 2 Nord Stream 2 (German-English mixed expression; german: Nord and en, Stream 2, literally 'North Stream2'; russian: Северный поток — 2) is a natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany running through the Baltic Sea, financed by ...

gasline project in 2017. The plane is submerged 100 meters deep in the

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, in international waters. The aircraft is intact, which is rare for a plane that has crash-landed at sea. Inside could possibly be the remains of the pilot, as well as active bombs.

Papua New Guinea

;Wrecks ;;A-20G *42-86563 – Stripped wreck abandoned at Yamai Airfield,

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Poland

;Under restoration or in storage ;;A-20 *s/n unknown – Extracted from Baltic Sea floor. To be displayed in Krakow National Museum of Aviation after restoration.

Russia

;On display ;;A-20G *43-10052 – Central Air Force Museum in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

. ;Under restoration or in storage ;;A-20H *44-0020 – exported from California to Latvia in December 2018, then to

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United Kingdom

;On display ;;A-20C *41-19393 – partial airframe recovered from Russia. Displayed unrestored at the Wings Museum near Balcombe.

United States

;Airworthy ;;A-20G *43-21709 – based at Lewis Air Legends in

San Antonio, Texas ("Cradle of Freedom") , image_map = , mapsize = 220px , map_caption = Interactive map of San Antonio , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1= State , subdivision_name1 = Texas , subdivision_t ...

. ;On display ;;A-20G 17 14 175 A20G

*43-22200 ''Little Joe'' –

National Museum of the United States Air Force The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official museum of the United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, northeast of Dayton, Ohio. The NMUSAF is the ...

at Wright-Patterson AFB in

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. *43-9436 –

Pima Air and Space Museum The Pima Air & Space Museum, located in Tucson, Arizona, is one of the world's largest non-government funded aerospace museums. The museum features a display of nearly 300 aircraft spread out over 80 acres (320,000 m²) on a campus occ ...

adjacent to Davis-Monthan AFB in

Tucson, Arizona , "(at the) base of the black ill , nicknames = "The Old Pueblo", "Optics Valley", "America's biggest small town" , image_map = , mapsize = 260px , map_caption = Interactive map ...

. This aircraft was originally nicknamed ''Big Nig'' during its World War II service, but due to the racist origins of this name, the museum has opted to restore only the nose art image, not the name. ;Under restoration or in storage ;;A-20G *43-21627 – in storage, at

, owned by MARC, adjacent to Davis-Monthan AFB in

Tucson, Arizona , "(at the) base of the black ill , nicknames = "The Old Pueblo", "Optics Valley", "America's biggest small town" , image_map = , mapsize = 260px , map_caption = Interactive map ...

. *43-22197 – in storage, owned by

Fantasy of Flight Fantasy of Flight is an aviation museum in Polk City, Florida. It opened in November 1995, to house Kermit Weeks' collection of aircraft that, until Hurricane Andrew damaged many in 1992, were housed at the Weeks Air Museum in Tamiami, Florid ...

Polk City, Florida Polk City is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,562 at the 2010 census. As of 2018, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 2,422. It is part of the Lakeland– Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistic ...

. ;;F-3A *39-741 – in storage, owned by GossHawk Unlimited in Casa Grande, Arizona."F-3A Havoc/39-741."
''GossHawk Limited.'' Retrieved: 21 February 2015.

References

;Notes ;Bibliography * Ogden, Bob. ''Aviation Museums and Collections of North America''. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 2007. . * ''United States Air Force Museum Guidebook''. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio: Air Force Museum Foundation, 1975.

External links

Joe Baugher's ''Douglas A-20 Boston/Havoc'' page

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