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    Airframe Family: North American B-25/PBJ Mitchell
    Latest Model:B-25J Mitchell
    Last Military Serial:44-28925 USAAF
    Construction Number:108-32200
    Last Civil Registration:N7687C
    Compressed ID:NA B-25J sn 44-28925 USAAF cn 108-3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a B-25J.

    From Circa August 1944 to 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-28925.

    From August 1944 to 1945

    Flew more than 80 combat missions in northern Italy, Southern Austria and Yugoslavia.

    From 1958 to 1964

    Parsons Air Park, Carpenteria, CA.

    From 1964 to 1968

    To Trans West Air Service/Aerial Applicators Inc, Salt Lake City, UT, with new c/r N7687C.

    29 August 1966


    Photographer: Neil Aird
    Notes: N7687C North American B-25J Mitchell (108-32220) ex 44-28925 of Trans-West

    From May 1968 to 1971

    To Tallmantz Aviation Inc, Orange County, CA keeping c/r N7687C.

    Flew in movie - Catch 22 - as Tokyo Express.

    From 1971 to 1984

    Displayed on a pole at Forest Lawn Gardens Veterans Cemetary, Pittsburg, PA. as 428925 / Daisy Jean.

    From 1984 to 1992

    To Harry Doan, Daytona Beach, FL.
    Stored - dis -assembled at Kissimmee, Florida.

    Circa 1992

    To Cavanaugh Collection Inc, Addison, TX keeping c/r N7687C.

    From 1992 to 1994

    Restored.
    At Chino, CA.

    1994

    Based at Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    15 May 1995

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL7687C (TB-25N, 10832200) issued.

    Markings Applied: How Boot That

    10 August 2007


    Photographer: Jay Curtiss

    17 April 2008


    Photographer: Jay Curtiss

    1 January 2015

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL7687C (TB-25N, 10832200) issued.


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    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose

    Individual Contributors
    Jay Curtiss
    Terry Fletcher

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