Warbird Information Exchange

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

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

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.

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

wow its a D model! Should be flying!

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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?

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

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

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.

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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

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

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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.

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