Hanover Street B-25s

[dc8jet]

Does anyone know the serial numbers of the five B-25s used in the movie Hanover Street and what names they carried in the movie.

[Stoney]

I think all of them were ex Catch 22 birds

[Coert Munk]

There you go:
44-29121 N86427 151724 / Brenda’s Boys
44-29366 N9115Z 151645 / Marvellous Miriam
44-30210 N9455Z 151863 / Big Bad Bonnie
44-30925 N9494Z 151632 / Gorgeous George-Ann
44-86701 N7681C 151790 / Amazing Andrea
Kind regards
C

[PeterA]

Some b/w shots by somebody called 'Mark12' on this site.

PeterA

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showth ... ver+street

[Archer]

A bit of Googling that I did a while ago for another forum, mainly a copy of Coert's post but it includes links to the registry and the fates of the aircraft:

Gorgeous George Ann (NL9494Z previously flown as 'Laiden Maiden' in Catch22) - Derelict at Sandtoft
Big Bad Bonnie (N9455Z previously flown as 'Tokyo Express') - Returned to the US, now at Chino as a restoration project
Amazing Andrea (N7681C, ex-Catch22) - Destroyed in Le Bourget Fire
Brenda's Boys (N86427 later 'Miami Clipper') - Now in a museum at Madrid
Marvellous Miriam (N9115Z ex-Catch22) - RAF Museum Hendon

Here's a photo of ex-'Brenda's Boys' that I took last year:

[dc8jet]

Thanks very much for the info. I had picked up some slides of a couple of them but couldn't ID the aircraft. Thanks Again!

[mustangdriver]

I might be wrong, but the B-25 at Grissom also has the name Big bad Bonnie on it. I know that it was a Catch 22 bird.

[Archer]

According to the registry here: http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b25regis ... 86843.html it is displayed as 'Passionate Paulette', although I cannot find any photos showing the nose art to check that. It is indeed an ex-Catch-22 aircraft, but are you sure that you aren't mixing up your women?

Edit: looks like she's been repainted: http://www.grissomairmuseum.com/airexib ... omber.html

[mustangdriver]

Yeah it was repainted. It used to carry the same green and desert paint scheme.

[Warbird Kid]

To get off topic for a min, Where is the Grissiom museum located? and is it possible that they would become a flyable musuem?

[ww2John]

Warbird Kid,

museum information at: http://www.grissomairmuseum.com/home.html

quote: "US Highway 31, at Grissom Air Base
Approx. 6 miles south of Peru, Indiana; approx. 15 miles north of Kokomo."

(Amazing what you can find with a little Google or other search, isn't it?)



This is an AFB museum, unlikely to have flyers, ever.

[Canso42]

Somewhere out there is a video on the making of Hanover Street. PBY5A, N68740, now at Lone Star, but then known as the Chartreuse Goose or just 'ol 740 was kept on hand as the chase plane. It can be seen ramp sitting in the background in a couple of marshalling scenes in the filming of the movie.

Canso42,
Chief grease rag on N68740, ex RCAF9742, 161BR sqn., ser. 407.

[Stoney]

She'll always be 'Passionate Paulette' to me as she was the plane I flew in "Catch 22". If someone would post a pix of her then, I'm at natrainer@aol.com

[JDK]

Somewhere out there is a video on the making of Hanover Street.

Are you thinking of the excellent documentary 'B-25s do fly IMC'? It was about the flight of the aircraft to the UK, rather than the making of the film, but if you can get it I'd suggest is should be on the 'essential' warbird video shelf.

[6trn4brn]

Hey guys...being a fairly new member/volunteer at the Grissom Air Museum, I am certainly not an expert on the history or our aircraft. I can tell you that Passionate Paulette is in the slow process of being repainted and the gentleman doing the work is doing an excellent job considering he is doing all of the work outside as his free-time allows! I was inside of Paulette last fall to do some general cleaning and such and can tell you that it would take a LOT of work to get her back into the air! She is pretty well stripped clean inside. I have some really good pictures of her from last fall, but like a lot of people here, I am not sure yet how to post them.

The majority of our aircraft still belong to the NMUSAF and will never fly again. We get no financial help at all from the Air Farce (whoops, Air Force) and are open to the public whom we rely on for our existence as well as our members and volunteers. Rollie is another of our volunteers who is there every Saturday running the register and answering questions about his service as a ball turret gunner with the Bloody 100th BG and a POW...Fantastic gentleman!

So, if you are ever in the area, make the trip to Grissom Air Museum...you will be glad you did