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"Grumpy"
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Serial #: 45-8883 Construction #: 108-47734 Civil Registration: NL75755 N75755 C-GCWA C-GCWM Model(s): B-25J Name: Grumpy Status: Airworthy Last info: 2003  Additional Images |
History: Built, Aug. 1945, not accepted by USAAF, delivered new to Roconstruction Finance Corp, Altus, OK, Oct. 1945. A.B. Fitzgerald, Fort Worth, TX, Sept. 10, 1946. - Registered as NL75755. Albert Trostel & Sons Co, Milwaukee, WI, July 1948-1950. - Registered as N75755. Northern Pump Co, Minneapolis, MN, May 1950-1958. Perter Volid, Chicago, IL, Nov. 1958-1964. King Korn Stamp Co, Chicago, IL, Feb. 1964. Dee Banister, Seymour, IN, Feb. 1964-1965. King Korn Stamp Co, Chicago, IL, Jan. 1965. - Suffered an engine fire on takeoff, struck trees during emergency landi American Learjet Corp, Tarkio, MD, Dec. 1965-1966. Jack Adams Aircraft Sales, Walls, MS, Aug. 1966. R.H. Wood/Wilbert Vault Service, Laurel, MD, Apr. 1967-1973. Robert W. Trainer, Lancaster, PA, DEc. 1973. Flight Test Engineering Co, Newalk, DE, Jan. 1974. - WFU, open storage, Wilmington, DE, 1973-1975. Canadian Warplane Heritage, Hamilton, Ontario, 1975-2003. - Registration C-GCWA reserved but not taken up. - Registered as C-GCWM, May 1975. - Delivered to Hamilton, Ontario as "She's a Silver Lady". - Restored to airworthy, first flight May 8, 1976. - Initially flew as RCAF/HD372/VO-D with D-day invasion stripes on lower fuselage only. - Acquired name Hot Gen! in 1992. - Added full D-day fuselage invasion stripes by May 1993. - Flew as HD372/VO-D/VO-F/Hot Gen! with full wing and fuselage D-day invasion stripes by October 1993. - Repainted and renamed "Grumpy". |
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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. Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2005. Photo Source(s): Jim Buckel Caz Caswell. |
