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This aircraft, retired in 1960, was the last operational B-25 in the USAF inventory. [135] 44-31004 Mary Alice II – Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama. [136] 44-31032 Problem Child – March Field Air Museum at March ARB (former March AFB) in Riverside, California. It is on loan from the Military Aircraft Restoration Corp in Chino ...
B-25 from the movie Catch 22. When the 1970 film adaption of Catch-22 began preliminary production, Paramount made a decision to hire the Tallmantz Aviation organization to obtain sufficient North American B-25 Mitchell (B-25) bomber aircraft to recreate a Mediterranean wartime base as depicted in the Joseph Heller novel of the same name.
Built at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach, CA as a B-17G-105-DL. Delivered May 1945; various domestic postings, retired from military use in 1950. [40] Circa 1972, was on display at Lackland AFB wearing markings of 42-97503 "Princess Pat", but with its own tail number (as later done by 44-83872 "Texas Raiders"). [41]
Pacific Princess may refer to: "Pacific Princess", the name of a B-25 Mitchell surviving aircraft; Pacific Princess, a cruise ship owned and operated by Princess Cruises between 1975 and 2002, then sold and renamed the MS Pacific before being retired and dismantled in 2013, also known for being the boat on The Love Boat
PBY Catalina Survivors identifies Catalinas on display, and includes aircraft designations, status, serial numbers, locations and additional information. The Consolidated PBY Catalina was a twin-engined American flying boat of the 1930s and 1940s, designed by Consolidated Aircraft Co. Several variants were built at five US and Canadian ...
Searchers announced Thursday they've discovered what they believe is the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong's plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in ...
Aerospace is soaring with Pratt & Whitney's work at Tinker Air Force Base. First, a new sustainment center. Now, a contract to service T33 engines.
On December 10, 1941 (December 9 in the United States), Kelly, with 14th Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, United States Army Air Forces was in command of B-17C Flying Fortress heavy bomber, #40-2045, which departed from Clark Field, on the island of Luzon, Commonwealth of the Philippines, alone and without escort, to search for an enemy aircraft carrier which had been reported ...