This exact plane flew DIRECTLY over my house in San Antonio yesterday. It circled the area a few times before landing at KSAT. I heard it coming and was able to get some video of it from my back yard. It was glorious. there was a trailing B-25 Mitchell flying with it

My dad was a young Army Air Corps B-25 pilot who served in North Africa during WWII. He also loved flying the A-20. Sad there aren't more Havocs flying.

Nothing like the sound of those big radials. As sweet as a Merlin purr sounds, you can't beat the R2600 or R2800 for auditory oomph.

Just showed this video to my father who flew in Bostons during the war. He was an lac but went with the aircraft on photo reconnaissance missions, His pilot was Ron gillman dfc who wrote the ship hunters. Made his evening, thanks!

Even better than the other vid, I do like both.

Father, Ned Parsons, SGT-- AAF-- 312th BG, 389th BS, New Guinea, Philippines and setting up for the invasion of Japan. He was the turret gunner.

Thanks! 😃

You may want to revisit the chain-of-ownership and logs for this plane. I worked on it in 1973. It was bought from Howard Hughes in the late 60's by Willie Farah (Flew A20's in WWII) who owned Farah Manufacturing (El Paso, TX), at that time the worlds leading producer of men's and boys pants, with over 10,000 employees. It was a 4 year restoration where the plane had a devoted hangar, a devoted crew of A&E's, and a budget to see it finished. Willie took it down to the wheels and brought it back as original except for parts where metallurgy had made advancements. It's painted in Imron (olive drab, but still shines and is unbelievably slick). I watched Willie's first flight on runway 26 at El Paso International. Willie was masterful with the plane, especially close to the ground where the capabilities of the plane were amazing. it's great that the plane is surviving and in a budget capable environment. That credit goes to its current owner and crew. But the restoration credit goes to Willie.

Love to make some 24-bit, undistorted audio recordings of those engines, and do some stills and videography of her!

thanks for the video! I had the pleasure of seeing this aircraft at Oshkosh, including watching it take off on Saturday morning for a flight with a B-25. (pics are posted to flickr, if anyone cares to search for it) Congrats to the crew and maintenance guys for making it possible!

Absolutely beautiful

Great video!! Thanks for showing this amazing aircraft!!

Thanks for all the work and love. Outstanding job.

Thanks for sharing. Wow

2 A 20s were rebuilt to airworthy factory standard in Toowoomba Queensland, Australia by the RAAF back in the late 90s. Both aircraft were built from recovered airframes in Papua New Guinea. One was a Boston and the other was a Havoc.

Damn good video! 🇺🇸

pretty cool

I have got to see that plane.

What a great video! The cameraman would do well to remember his responses are being recorded (his Yeahs and Okays etc got a little distracting IMO) but that shouldn't take away from the editing and content. Great to hear from Stew Dawson and the engineers...and that final beat-up. WOW!

Hugh's also had a B'25J based in Culver City

Thanks for the video....didn't know there were ANY privately owned P-70's. Thought what few in existence were in museums and non-flyable.

This was interesting. I also had an uncle that flew as gunner/ crew chief. He and two crew mates were lost September 6, 1945 off the northern coast of Okinawa. The only information passed to the family is that it suddenly spun out of formation, hit the ocean and sank immediately with all on board. No remains were recovered. I would like to know how crew members other than the pilot were able to get in or out of the plane. Another video indicated these planes would spin violently under power and recovery under 5000 ft was not possible

My dad flew Boston IIIs with RAF 114 Squadron in North Africa and the Med. He was SAAF, seconded to the RAF, and earned his DFC with them. He loved the Boston; said it was a joy to fly. Many years later he achieved more fame with having .303 Browning machine guns mounted under the wings of his V35A Bonanza. It was, as far as I know the only V35 Bonanza to have been armed that way. The aircraft was used in the Rhodesian Bush War of the 1970s, and returned to its civilian state at the cease of hostilities. This was a time when all civilian aircraft were pressed into service to help with the war effort. If you are interested, search for "Robin Watson's warbird". There are a couple of photos there. There's also a write-up on 1000aircraftphotos.com. Plans for arming came from the T34 Mentor, which, apparently, had the same wing. It was sold after he died in 1990, and sometime in the past 10 or so years, was shipped to the US, but the container was dropped, damaging the tail, and deemed too expensive to repair. I remember one day at Bulawayo airport looking at a Shrike Commander, when he pointed at it. "My boy, that's Ted Smith's creation. He designed the Boston, and I bet that will handle just like the Boston. Beautiful aeroplane..."

As a pilot I, like most pilots, would have wanted to have flown a P-47 or a P-51 in combat but...if I had been assigned to attack ships the A-20 "Havoc" would have been the "bird" I would have wanted to fly! This last flying example is beautiful!

I was just watching another video about the men who developed the early JATO systems and they used an A-20 for the test plane.

Jim Dale!!!

Must've mentioned Freeport twenty times, but not once did anybody say what state the town is in. Glad it was in the thumbnail.

My Uncle flew an A-20, I think in the 312th Bombardment Group in New Guinea. When will this A-20 do another show? Will it go out to Chino, CA sometime?

My uncle . . . . Was the gunner on one of these and was shot down and killed in Papua New guinea in 1944.

Kermit Weeks has one in the works.

whats the startup procedure #2 first? if #2 first why?

How many forward firing machime gums was it able to carry? They have six in the nose here. I herd that they could carry eight more on wing mounts? If true, that`s a lot of shooting-up. Could they take out something like a pamzer IV D ?

Kermit has all this rare crap, he even has a P-35. A-20's were really cool for their formation flying, they really knew how to protect themselves.

be cool to see this flying and get some photos

The a-20, the little sister of the a-26

There's a rebuilt A 20 Havoc in Enid Ok named Lady liberty can Enid Oklahoma

is sad no engine sound :'(

You can get an image collection of the day that includes 55 images of the plane for $30.00 here. northern-illinois-shots.myshopify.com/products/photo-of-the-douglas-a-20-havoc-image-download

...does Mr. Lewis fly his planes like Kermit does?.....

...oh, and is this an A-20 or a P-70?...gun nose...and Wright R-2600 engines have got to be among the loudest piston engines ever built... :)

A 20 could carry 18, 50 cals

Hopefully they won't make the mistake confederate AF used to do and let veteran geezers fly and then crash rare AC!😳 Example a B26 maurader Jman