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"Tondelayo"


Serial #: 44-28932
Construction #:
  108-33257
Civilian Registration:
  N3476G
Model(s):
  B-25J
  TB-25J
  TB-25N
Name: Tondelayo
Status: Airworthy
Last Info: 2006
  History:
Delivered to USAAF as 44-28932, 19??.
- Stored at Davis Monthan AFB, AZ, Dec. 1958.
Earl "Red" Dodge, Anchorage, AK, June 12, 1959-1964.
- Registered as N3476G.
- Converted to fire tanker, fitted with 1000 gallon tank, May, 1962.
Robert P. Schlaefli, Port Orchard, WA, 1966-1984.
Collings Foundation, Stowe, MA, Nov. 6, 1985-2006.
- Flew as 428932/7A/Hoosier Honey.
- Crashed, Minute Man Field, Stowe, MA, June 10, 1987.
-- Rebuilt.
- Based in Houston, TX.
-- Operated by Collings Foundation West.
- Name changed to "Tondelayo", 2002.



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.
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2005.
Photo Source(s):
Mark Silvestri.
Glenn Chatfield