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B-25 MITCHELL/40-2168



       
Serial #: 40-2168
Construction #:
  62-2837
Civil Registry:
  NL75831
  N75831
  XB-GOG
  N2825B
  Model(s):
  B-25 Mitchell
  RB-25 Mitchell
Name: Avirex Express/Miss Hap
Status: Airworthy
Last Info: 2015

History:
Delivered to U.S. Army Air Force as 40-2168.
- BOC: February 1941.
- Assigned to 17th Bomb Group.
-- Used as General Hap Arnold's RB-25 VIP transport, 1943-1944.
Charles R. Bates, Chatanooga, TN, January 22, 1947-1948.
- Registration XB-GOG reserved but not taken up.
-- Issued ferry permit but not used.
- Registered as NL75831, April 1947.
Bankers Life & Casualty Co, Chicago, IL, November 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, November 1956.
- Removed from USCR as salvaged, March 1965.
JRT Aero Service, Wichita Fallsm TX, October 1966-1971.
- Registered as N2825B.
John P. Silberman, Savannah, GA, August 25, 1971-1974.
SST Aviation Museum, Kissimee, FL, October 8, 1974-1979.
Chuck Thompson/Mustang Productions Inc, Polk City, FL, June 1975-1976.
Grover R. Summers/Samuel E. Pool, Lake Wales, FL, February 1977.
Charles "Dewey" Miller, Mobile, AL, August 28, 1977-1983.
- Delivered from Kissimee, FL to Mobile, AL, December 12, 1978.
- Restored to airworthy, first flight September 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, November 1989-2002.
American Airpower Museum, Farmingdale, NY, 2002-2015.
- Flown as 02168/Avirex Express on starboard side and Miss Hap on port side.

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.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2013.
Federal Aviation Administration.
American Airpower Museum
Photo Source(s):
Caz Caswell.
Timothy Cox Collection

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