B-25D Mitchell/43-3308 at Pampa, TX - 2008

[steve dickey]

Took these last summer. It looks fairly complete from looking in the nose and walking up the stairs to the cockpit. You need a WIDE angle lens if you want the whole thing in one shot from inside the fence!











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[Lynn Allen]

I see your driver was with you....

Lynn

[Dan Johnson II]

Can I start crying now? It looks like it's dying and it's an early 25 model

[george]

Thanks very much for posting those pictures. Thats really amazing, an early model Billy out in the middle of nowhere in a small town like that. And it still retains its top turret. And you say it appears mostly complete. I hope they do something to preserve it, it looks like the elements are taking their toll. What a beautiful plane, though.

[daveymac82c]

That's very cool.

I love those warbirds that you find in the middle of nowhere. It gives a person like me a reason to go places like that, and while I'm there I bet I'd see a lot of other things I'd like.

It looks like the interior of the plane is in really good condition. Great stuff!

Cheers,

David

[Matt Gunsch]

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b25regis ... 33308.html

[Nathan]

wow its a D model! Should be flying!

[steve dickey]

This airplane replaced the previous B-25 that was on display with the big radar pod in the nose, I think the Navy took that one back? Does anybody know where it is now?

[Nathan]

This airplane replaced the previous B-25 that was on display with the big radar pod in the nose, I think the Navy took that one back? Does anybody know where it is now?

Naval musuem in Florida?

[steve dickey]

Thats what I was thinking but couldn't find it, plus I'm not 100% its Navy owned just a edu-ma-cated guess.

[Second Air Force]

In case anyone wonders why Pampa Texas should be home to a B-25 today--Pampa Army Air Field was a multi-engine advanced training station during WWII. They had the normal complement of AT-9s and Bamboo bombers of various types, and finally used B-25s as trainers. Coach Tom Landry did his multi training at Pampa before moving on to B-17 transition school. Today a hangar and a couple of other structures are almost all that remains of the field--the runways have been completely removed in lieu of farming and the apron is part of a dairy operation.

Scott

[RickH]

That's not a "D". No staggered waist windows and no tall tail gunners glass. The D debuted both. May very well be a real "C". It also has the small windows behind the cockpit.

[rwdfresno]

I believe this aircraft to be a D model. It was restord to static conditions by Aero Trader more than 20 years ago if I recall correctly. It was on outdoor display at Quantico Marine base for many years and is now on load apparently. It looks like it has gone down hill considerably.

The C and D modles in many cases were indistingishable. The version C/D was an indication of which factory produced the aircraft. C being built in Inglewood and D being built in Kansas Ciry. Both C's and D's were retrofitted of modifed to have waist gun positons most of which were done at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center. The H model was the first to incorporate the twin .50s Bell turret in the tail from the factory although many were retrofitted and modified.

Ryan

[Nathan]

That's not a "D". No staggered waist windows and no tall tail gunners glass. The D debuted both. May very well be a real "C". It also has the small windows behind the cockpit.

The "D" model did not have a tail gun. At lest not all block numbers.

[gary1954]

Ah, but how many examples of the Charlie model had individual exhaust stacks vs. the Delta model that had individual exhaust stacks?
Looks like a Delta Model to me.