N4818E was built in Douglas Aircraft, Tulsa, OK plant as an A-26C with the construction ... By this point, however, most WWII-era aircraft used for aerial firefighting were being gradually phased ...

In the late 1940s, I got a job at the Douglas Aircraft plant in El Segundo, California, where AD-1 Skyraider dive bombers were being crafted in great abundance. My first priority was to learn the ...