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B-25 MITCHELL/44-30363
B-25 MITCHELL/44-30363
Serial #: 44-30363
Construction #:
  108-33638
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
  B-25J Mitchell
  TB-25J Mitchell
  TB-25L Mitchell
  TB-25M Mitchell
  ETB-25M Mitchell
  JTB-25M Mitchell
Name: Desert Doom
Status: Display
Last Info: 2019
History:
Manufactured by North American Aviation, Kansas City, KS.
Delivered to U.S. Army Air Force as 44-30363.
  • BOC: January 17, 1945.
  • SOC: November 9, 1959.
  • Allocated to Mobile Air Technical Service Center, Brookley AAF, AL, January 1945.
  • Transferred o 4138th AAF Base Unit, Laurel AAF, MS, April 1945.
    • Stored.
  • Transferred to 4168th AAF Base Unit (AMC), South Plains AAF, TX, February 1946.
    • Stored.
  • Transferred to 4141st AF Base Unit (AMC), Pyote AFB, TX, August 1947.
    • Stored.
  • Transferred to 2753rd Aircraft Storage Squadron (AMC), Pyote AFB, TX, September 1951.
  • Transferred to Birmingham Modification Center, AL, October 1951.
    • Converted to TB-25J.
  • Converted to TB-25L, May 1953.
  • Transferred to Hughes Aircraft, Culver City, CA, June 1953
    • Converted to TB-25M.
  • Transferred to 3566th Basic Training Wing, James Connolly AFB, TX, June 1954.
  • Transferred to Wright Air Development Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, April 1955.
    • Converted to ETB-25M.
    • Deployed to McConnell AFB, KS.
    • Converted to JTB-25M, March 1956.
  • Dropped from inventory by transfer to the Strategic Air Command Museum, November 9, 1959.
Strategic Air Command Museum, Offutt AFB, NE, November 9, 1959-1998.
  • Displayed as 0-43363/Desert Doom.
Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum, Offutt AFB, NE, May 1998-2019.
B-25 MITCHELL/44-30363
B-25 MITCHELL/44-30363

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.
Strategic Air and Space Museum
Photo Source(s):
Glenn Chatfield

Research Assistance:
Glenn Chatfield
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