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Serial #: 44-28925 Construction #: 108-32200 Civil Registration: N7687C |
Model(s): B-25J Mitchell TB-25J Mitchell TB-25N Mitchell Name: How `Boot That! Status: Airworthy Last info: 2015 |
Built in Kansas City, Missouri.
Delivered to U.S. Army Air Force as 44-28925.
- BOC: August 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, December 1957-1958.
Parsons Air Park, Carpenteria, CA, April 1958-1964.
- Registered as N7687C.
- Modified for electronic test equipment, July 1960.
Trans West Air Service/Aerial Applicators Inc, Salt Lake City, UT, August 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, October 1972.
- Displayed on pole as 428925/Daisy Jean.
Harry Doan, Daytona Beach, FL, August 1984-1992.
- Trucked to Florida for rebuild, October 1984.
- Stored disassembled, Kissimee, FL, 1984-1990.
James Cavanaugh/The Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, TX, October 1992-2015.
- Restored to airworthy at Chino, CA.
- First flight, June 1995.
- Flown as How `Boot That!'?.
"Daisy Jean" displayed at Forest Lawn Veterans Cemetary, Pittsburg, PA, July 1975.
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. Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2013. |
Photo Source(s): Nicolai Musante, http://www.musante.dk/tour0202/, 2002 Unknown. Martin Kyburz/Swiss Mustangs. Research Assistance: - |
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