Douglas A-24B Banshee - Pima Air & Space Museum - Tucson, AZ - Static Aircraft Displays on Waymarking.com

Located in Hanger 4 of the Pima Air & Space Museum is a Douglas A-24B Banshee static display, along with other WWII planes in this hangar. There's a webpage devoted to this plane from the museum website here and it reads:

DOUGLAS A-24B

The Dauntless was slow, underpowered and had insufficient defensive armament, by late 1941, the U.S. Navy considered it obsolete, even though it had been in service for only a year. Despite this the SBD participated in every major battle of the war in the Pacific and was responsible for ending Japanese expansion in the Pacific at the Battle of Midway. First entering service in 1940 the Dauntless served with the U.S. Navy, Marines Corps, and with the Army Air Force as the A-24 as well as with several foreign militaries. The SBD was capable of maintaining stable dives of up to seventy degrees allowing very accurate bombing. The Navy planned to replace the Dauntless with the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver in 1944, but once both aircraft were in service side-by-side the SBD proved to be superior to its replacement and remained in use through the end of the war.

This plane has an inventory page at Warbirdregistry.org. I'll be submitting updated info to their website to include the current status of this plane.

Each aircraft contains its own interpretive display and I've included a picture of it which contains additional info on this aircraft.

Many of these planes move around within the museum grounds so keep this in mind when visiting and trying to locate a particular aircraft.

Type of Aircraft: (make/model): Douglas A-24B Banshee (Dauntless) Tail Number: (S/N): 42-54654 Construction:: original aircraft Location (park, airport, museum, etc.): Pima Air & Space Museum inside / outside: inside Other Information:: Open 7 Days a Week 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (last admission at 4 p.m.) Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas day. Access restrictions: Adult (ages 13 & up) $15.50 $20.00 Pima County Resident $12.25 $16.25 Senior/Military $12.75 $16.75 Junior (ages 7-12) $9.00 $12.50 Child (6 & Under) FREE Group of 20+ $12.50

Visit Instructions:
Photo of aircraft (required - will be interesting to see if the aircraft is ever repainted or progress if being restored)
Photo of serial number (required unless there is not one or it is a replica)
Photo(s) of any artwork on the aircraft (optional but interesting)

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