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Serial #: 37-0505 Construction #: 2505 Civil Registration: N67947 XB-LAJ N18AC |
Model(s): B-18A Bolo B-18B Bolo Name: None Status: Restorartion Last info: 2008 |
Built by Douglas Aircraft Company, Santa Monica, CA, 1938.
Delivered to USAAC as 37-0505.
- BOC: November 21, 1938.
- SOC: February 1945.
- Assigned to Hamilton Army Air Field, CA, November 1938.
- Transferred to March Army Air Field, CA, March 1940.
- Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corp, Bush Field, GA, February 1945.
- Transferred to Salt Lake Army Air Field, UT, Oct. 1940.
-- Tail damaged in unknown incident by 1st Lt R.L. Gibb, Oct. 10, 1940.
- Transferred to Gowan Army Air Field, CA, July 1941.
- Transferred to Geiger Army Air Field, WA, Jan. 1942.
- Transferred to Pendleton Army Air Field, OR, February 1942.
- Transferred to Salt Lake Army Air Field, UT, March 1942.
- Transferred to 368th Bombardment Squadron, Wendover Army Air Field, CA, April 1941.
-- Damaged in unknown incident by 2Lt Elbert G Odle, June 10, 1942.
- Transferred to Ogden Air Depot, UT, Oct. 1942.
- Transferred to San Antonio Air Depot, Kelly Army Air Field, TX, November 1942.
- Transferred to Langley Army Air Field, VA, Jan. 1943.
-- Converted to B-18B.
- Transferred to Mobile Air Service Center, Brookley Army Air Field, AL, September 1943.
- Transferred to Morrison Army Air Field, FL, July 1943.
-- Stored.
- Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), Agusta, GA, February 1945.
-- Up for disposal.
-- Total time: 1095 hours.
D. Eugene Walsh, Aug. 1954.
- Registered as N67947.
Tyler Flight Service Corp, Westminster, MD (later Long Island, NY), 1954.
Aero Service of Dalhart, Dalbart, TX, 1963-1966.
Federacion Regional de Sociedades Cooperativas de la Industria Pesquera
de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California, Oct. 19, 1966-1969.
- Registered as XB-LAJ.
- Purchased for $15,800.
Larkin Aircraft Corp, Santa Cruz, CA, February 8, 1971.
- Purchased for $4,000.
Harold L. Freeman/Aero-Services International, Tucson, AZ, March 27, 1971.
- Purchased for $7,000.
- Donated to Tucson Air Museum Foundation of Pima County, February 4, 1971.
Tucson Air Museum Foundation of Pima County, Tucson, AZ, 1971-1972.
- Registration N18AC reserved but not taken up.
- Stored at Davis Monthan AFB, AZ.
Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, AZ, 1973-1981.
- Transferred to USAFM, stored at Davis Monthan AFB, AZ, May 19, 1981.
McChord Air Museum, McChord AFB, WA, May 28, 1983-2008.
- Delivered by C-5A Galaxy, 1983.
- Displayed as USAAC/37-505/10/89R.
- Undergoing restoration, 2008.
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Source(s): Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003. McChord Air Museum |
Photo Source(s): None Research Assistance: - |
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