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B-25 MITCHELL/44-30635
B-25 MITCHELL/44-30635
Serial #: 44-30635
Construction #:
  108-33910
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
  B-25J Mitchell
  TB-25N Mitchell
Name: Whiskey Pete
Status: Displayed
Last Info: 2015
History:
Manufactured by North American Aviation, Kansas City, KS.
Delivered to the U.S. Army Air Force as 44-30635.
  • BOC: February 7, 1945.
  • SOC: August 1958.
  • Allocated to Moody AAF, GA, February 1945.
    • Assigned to 2109th AAF Base Unit, Turner AAF, Albany, GA, April 1945.
  • Transferred to 2143rd AAF Base Unit, Tuskegee AAF, AL, July 1945.
  • Transferred to 3706th AAF Base Unit, Sheppard AAF, TX, January 1946.
  • Transferred to 3502nd AAF Base Unit, Chanute AAF, IL, August 1946.
  • Transferred to 3345th Technical Training Wing, Chanute AFB, IL, August 1948.
    • Sent to Birmingham Modification Center, AL, December 1954.
    • Converted to TB-25N.
    • Return to 3345th Technical Training Wing, Chanute AFB, IL, February 1955.
  • Dropped from inventory by transfer to museum status, August 1958.
United States Air Force Museum, Chanute AFB, Rantoul, IL, 1965-1993.
  • Previously displayed as 02344.
  • Currently displayed as 2279/Whiskey Pete.
Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, IL, 1993- October 31, 2015.
  • Displayed as 2279/Whiskey Pete.
Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, AL, 2016-2019.
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.
Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum
Photo Source(s):
Glenn Chatfield

Research Assistance:
Pat Carry
Glenn Chatfield
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