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B-25 MITCHELL/43-4643



Serial #: 43-4643
Construction #:
  98-21644
Civil Registration:
  NX1203
  N1203
  Model(s):
  B-25H Mitchell
  TB-25H
Status: Wrecked
Last Info: 1978

History:
Delivered to U.S.A.A.F as 43-4643, 19??.
Paul Mantz, Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, CA, February 19, 1946-1961.
- Acquired from War Assets Corp, Seacy Field, OK, February 19, 1946.
- Registered as NX1203.
Tallmantz Aviation, Orange County, CA, November 1961-1975.
- Registered as N1203.
- Flew as The Bug Smasher.
- Fitted with Cinerama camera nose.
- Flew in movie Catch 22, 1968-1969.
- Camera nose removed circa 1971 and fitted to N9451Z.
Howard Stucky, Moundridge, KS, July 1975-1976.
Vicki Meller, Burbank, CA, March 1976-1978.
- Crashed in Columbia, Circa 1978.
-- Reported crashed during drug running.

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.
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