B-25 bomber cockpit parts on eBay

[Stearman75972]

B-25 bomber cockpit instrument panel control wheel yoke throttle seat etc have been posted on eBay. States it is from a B-25C model. Starting price is $3,900. Best of luck to all that bid on it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... ink:top:en

[Craig59]

I emailed the seller and the radio-call plate has 130-209 on it. I would assume this translates to serial number 41-30209 which actually makes it a B-25D-10. I've emailed this information to the seller as well. A fascinating artifact, that's for certain.

From the AAIR website, looks like it had a little boo boo in February '44 at Hamilton Field:TOACBL=T/O Accident, Crash Belly Landing (as opposed to a non-crash belly landing...I guess)

440207 B-25D 41-30209 HqSq 4AF Hamilton AAF, Novato, CA 4 TOACBL 4 Lakenan, Neal C USA CA Hamilton AAF, Novato, CA

[Craig59]

Wow! That didn't last long. It had an opening bid of $3900 and then the seller added a "buy-it-now" of 6K and it's gone at that price. I can guess that if you were trying to put together a complete B-25D cockpit by piecemeal - complete instrument panel with instruments, throttle quadrant, yoke, pilot seat - that you'd spend a lot more than that in the end. Someone got themselves a real interesting piece of history.

[PinecastleAAF]

I think the throttle quad by itself is worth 4-5k but that's just an uneducated guess.

[hang the expense]

All that can be said is SCREAMING DEAL.You are right that you cant make it new for that.Not even close.

[Ken]

Paint aficionados, take note of the shades. Thanks for posting this thread.

Ken

[gary1954]

Paint aficionados, take note of the shades. Thanks for posting this thread.

Ken

I sure as heck got copies of the pictures before they no longer exist .