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Serial #: 44-30975 Construction #: 96-34250 Civil Registry: NL5126N |
Model(s): B-25J Mitchell PBJ-1J Status: Crashed Last Info: 1950 |
Built for U.S.A.A.F as 44-30975, 19??.
Delivered to U.S. Navy as PBJ-1J as Bu. 35001, April 28, 1945.
Transfered to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, November 31, 1945.
Sherman Machine & Iron Works, Oklahoma City, OK, November 25, 1946.
Bankers Life & Casualty Co, Chicago, IL, April 1948-1949.
- Registered as NL5126N.
- Modification to exectutive transport by Page Aircraft, Clinton, OK.
North American Aviation Inc, Inglewood, CA, July 1949-1950.
- Prototype "N.A. Executive Transport" conversion.
- Redesigned nose with Convair 240 windshield & instrument panel.
- First flight, February 15, 1950.
- Crashed and destroyed during demo tour, Chandler, AZ, March 25, 1950.
-- Suffered structural failure of mainplane in flight.
-- 7 people fatally injured.
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Source(s): Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2013. |
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