These walk-around photos were taken at Västerås Flygmuseum 2017. They show a Douglas A-26B Invader, USAAF serial 44-34602, civil registration N167B, known as "Sugarland Express" — one of the finest surviving examples of this formidable twin-engined attack bomber. The Invader entered service in 1944 and served the USAAF in both the Pacific and European theatres, flying low-level attack missions at high speed with a devastating armament of up to eight forward-firing .50 calibre machine guns in a solid nose plus six more in the wings. It later saw extensive combat in Korea and Vietnam, making it one of the few aircraft to serve in three major conflicts.
Built by Douglas at Long Beach in 1944, 44-34602 served with the USAF until being struck off charge in 1958 and stored at Davis-Monthan AFB. After civilian service as an agricultural aircraft, it was restored to full military configuration with eight-gun nose in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1987 and delivered to Oslo, Norway in 1988, where it joined the Scandinavian Historical Flight as BC-602 "Sugarland Express" — a flying warbird based in Europe for nearly four decades. It has since been sold on and as of 2024-25 was undergoing maintenance in Germany prior to finding a new owner.