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B-25 MITCHELL/43-4899




North American B-25 43-4899
North American B-25 43-4899
North American B-25 43-4899
North American B-25 43-4899
North American B-25 43-4899

North American B-25 43-4899
North American B-25 43-4899
North American B-25 43-4899
North American B-25 43-4899


Serial #: 43-4899
Construction #:
  98-21900
Civil Registration:
  N66572
  N1582V
  N37L
Model(s):
  B-25H
  TB-25H
  RB-25H
Name: None
Status: Display
Last Info: 2007
  History:
State Teachers College, Dickinson, ND, 1946-1950.
California Atlantic Airways, St. Petersburg, FL, 19??.
- Registration N66572 reserved but not taken up.
- Sale not completed.
SAX Aviation Co, Dickinson, ND, May 7, 1950.
Theodore X. Fabian, East Orange, NJ, Mar. 18, 1952.
William L. Rausch, Teterboro, NJ, Mar. 18, 1952.
- Registered as N1582V.
Rausch Aviation, Teterboro NJ, July 17, 1952-1955.
- Executive conversion, fitted with tip tanks, 1953.
Le Franc Corp, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 12, 1955-1959.
- Registered as N37L.
- Executive conversion, Jan. 1956.
-- Tip tanks and airstair added.
-- Equipped with JATO units.
-- Fitted with modified (with tip tanks) wings from N5865V.
Oakland Airmotive Co, Oakland, CA, June 3, 1959.
Carrier Services Corp, Flint, MI, Sep. 16, 1959-1963.
Grimes Manufacturing Co., Urbana, OH, May 7, 1963-1964.
Air International, Columbus, OH, Sept. 24, 1964-1970.
Golden Isles Aviation Inc, St. Simons Island, GA, July 7, 1970-1972.
- Damaged in forced landing during alleged during drug run, St. Simons, Island.
John Hanson, Manistee, MI, Mar. 14, 1977-1980.
- Trucked disassembled from GA to Manistee for restoration.
Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo, MI, Feb. 2, 1980-2007.
- Trucked to Kalamazoo dismantled to complete restoration, 1988-1990.
- Displayed as USAAF/4899.

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):
Pat Carry.
Unknown.
Mike Henniger
Mark Nankivil

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