Warbird Information Exchange

Or alternately why you shouldn't store your warbird outdoors near the ocean...

Yikes ...almost as bad as the Lake Greenwood bird! Are they going to part this one out? Maybe I can talk my friend into getting the hulk and putting it on the roof of his warehouse, like the ex-Mackie A-26!

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

That poor old Mitchell. Is that a PV-2 in the background?

You read somewhere on the internet that does not matter how much material came off .. All you have to do is put bondo on it and it is good as new!

Amazing what the exposure to salt can do just from the air alone.

I hope Aerotrader can find her a good home !
This bird is well worth saving, even if it means replacing some substantial airframe sections. Its not every day you come across a B-25.

Where I come from, there aren't any B-25s

It wont be long before these babies fetch a Million bucks

Keep Em Flying

Lightning

Tony Ritzman says that most any restorable (to airworthy) B-25 project out there will need some attach angles and spar caps replaced with new parts anyhow. They've had them made up for restorations in the past. The skins are easy. Much much more has been done with less.

Lockheed in back is one of the Kermit Weeks examples. The other one is in Mesa, AZ.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/pv2harpo ... 37202.html

Which B-25 is this?

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

Hawain B-25J s/n.44-31504 now with Aerotrader

Get Em Flying

Lightning

I think it is: 44-31504

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... ght=#89830

So which did they get in return?

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

Mustangdriver,

Have you been out in the Monongahela with your fish finder looking for that B-25 lol? My whole family is from Pit and of course they all know of my longtime interest and involvement with B-25s so every time we drive by the river I get the whole story behind the B-25.

You know it. The story says that it was never recovered, but I talked to a retired railroad worker who operated cranes. He said that the same day that it crashed, they went down, cut it up and threw it in the back of some flat cars. Remember that in the 50's the B-25 was just another old airplane. It was really transporting triggers for the atomic bomb. All survived the water landing when the plane ran out of gas trying to make it in to KAGC (where I now work). But for some reason, one man went back in, and was trapped in the bombay and drowned when it sank. It is still a great story, and some say that the railroad guys are wrong that they actual cut up a C-47 that also ditched in the water and that the B-25 is still in the river. The railroad guys don't know what kind of plane it was.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager