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"Avirex Express" & "Miss Hap"
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Serial #: 40-2168 Construction #: 62-2837 Civil Registry: NL75831 N75831 XB-GOG N2825B Model(s): B-25 RB-25 Name: Avirex Express & Miss Hap Status: Airworthy Last Info: 2006 |
History: Delivered to USAAF as 40-2168. - BOC: Feb. 1941. - Assigned to 17th Bomb Group. -- Used as Gen. Hap Arnold's RB-25 VIP transport, 1943-1944. Charles R. Bates, Chatanooga, TN, Jan. 22, 1947-1948. - Registration XB-GOG reserved but not taken up. -- Issued ferry permit but not used. - Registered as NL75831, Apr. 1947. Bankers Life & Casualty Co, Chicago, IL, Nov. 4, 1948. - Registered as N75831. Hughes Tool Co, Houston, TX, June 28, 1951-1962. Hughes/Acme Aircraft Co, Lomita, CA, June 1962-1964. - Last FAA inspection, Nov. 1956. - Removed from USCR as salvaged, Mar. 1965. JRT Aero Service, Wichita Fallsm TX, Oct. 1966-1971. - Registered as N2825B. John P. Silberman, Savannah, GA, Aug. 25, 1971-1974. SST Aviation Museum, Kissimee, FL, Oct. 8, 1974-1979. Chuck Thompson/Mustang Productions Inc, Polk City, FL, June 1975-1976. Grover R. Summers & Samuel E. Pool, Lake Wales, FL, Feb. 1977. Charles "Dewey" Miller, Mobile, AL, Aug. 28, 1977-1983. - Delivered from Kissimee, FL to Mobile, AL, Dec. 12, 1978. - Restored to airworthy, first flight Sept. 9, 1980. - Flew as "Proud Mary". Alan Clarke/Fighting Air Command/Flytex Inc, Dallas, TX, July 1983-1987. - Solid nose replace with glass nose. - Flew as 02168/The General. Jeff Clyman/TBF Inc, Tenafly, NY, Nov. 1989-2002. American Airpower Museum, Farmingdale, NY, 2002-2006. - Flown as 02168/"Avirex Express" on starboard side and "Miss Hap" on port side. |
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003. Photo Source(s): Caz Caswell. Timothy Cox Collection |
