"How `Boot That!"

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Serial #: 44-28925 Construction #:   108-32200 Civil Registration:   N7687C Model(s):   B-25J   TB-25J   TB-25N Name: How `Boot That! Status: Airworthy Last info: 2005

History: Built in Kansas City, Missouri. Delivered to USAAF as 44-28925. - BOC: Aug. 1944. - SOC: 1958 - Allocated to 380th BS/310th BG/57th BW, Italy. - Flew more than 80 combat missions in northern Italy,    Southern Austria and Yugoslavia. - After war converted to TB-25N configuration. - Stored at Davis Monthan AFB, AZ, Dec. 1957-1958. Parsons Air Park, Carpenteria, CA, Apr. 1958-1964. - Registered as N7687C. - Modified for electronic test equipment, July 1960. Trans West Air Service/Aerial Applicators Inc, Salt Lake City, UT, Aug. 1964-1969. Tallmantz Aviation Inc, Orange County, CA, May 1968-1971. - Flew in movie "Catch 22" as "Tokyo Express", 1968-1969. Forest Lawn Gardens Veterans Cemetary, Pittsburg, PA, May 1971-1984. - Airlifted to cemetary by helicopter, Oct. 1972. - Displayed on pole as 428925/Daisy Jean. Harry Doan, Daytona Beach, FL, Aug. 1984-1992. - Trucked to Florida for rebuild, Oct. 1984. - Stored disassembled, Kissimee, FL, 1984-1990. James Cavanaugh/The Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, TX, Oct. 1992-2005. - Restored to airworthy at Chino, CA. - First flight, June 1995. - Flown as How `Boot That!'?.

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"Daisy Jean" displayed at Forest Lawn Veterans Cemetary, Pittsburg, PA, July 1975.

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Circa 1968.

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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): Nicolai Musante, http://www.musante.dk/tour0202/, 2002 Unknown. Martin Kyburz/Swiss Mustangs.