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    Airframe Family: North American B-25/PBJ Mitchell
    Latest Model:RB-25H Mitchell
    Last Military Serial:43-4899 USAAF
    Construction Number:98-21900
    Last Civil Registration:N37L
    Compressed ID:NA RB-25H sn 43-4899 USAAF cn 98-21...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    17 May 1944

    Constructed as a B-25H-10.
    Roll-out date.

    18 May 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-4899.

    May 1944

    Transferred to Modification Center, Fairfax Field, Kansas City, KS.
    Assigned as administration aircraft.

    1944

    Transferred to Hunter Field, El Paso, TX.
    Awaiting assignment.

    July 1944

    Ferry flight. Delivered to 42nd Bomb Group, Philippines.
    Departed Long Beach, CA.

    Circa July 1944

    Assigned to a replacement pool and never saw combat.

    November 1944

    Ferry flight.
    Returned to the USA.

    Circa December 1944

    Transferred to 1st Motion Picture Production Unit, Culver City, CA.

    Converted to a TB-25H.

    Redesignated as RB-25H.

    February 1946

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Army Air Field, OK.

    From 1946 to 1950

    To State Teachers College, Dickinson, ND.

    7 May 1950

    To SAX Aviation Co, Dickinson, ND with new c/r N66572.

    May 1951

    To Mike Dolajak, Dickinson, ND keeping c/r N66572.

    17 March 1952

    To Theodore X. Fabian, East Orange, NJ keeping c/r N66572.

    18 March 1952

    To William L. Rausch, Hackensack, NJ with new c/r N1582V.

    17 July 1952

    To Rausch Aviation, Teterboro, NJ keeping c/r N1582V.

    1953

    Executive conversion; fitted with tip tanks.

    12 August 1955

    To Le Franc Corporation, San Francisco, CA with new c/r N37L.

    January 1956

    Executive conversion carried out including the installation of an airstair and equipped with JATO.


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection

    The executive conversion included the installation of wings and tip tanks from c/r N5865V.
    For more information about this other airframe see this Airframe Dossier

    17 January 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL37L (B-25H, 43-4899) issued.

    3 June 1959

    To Oakland Airmotive Co, Oakland, CA keeping c/r N37L.

    16 September 1959

    To Carrier Services Corp., Flint, MI keeping c/r N37L.

    7 May 1963

    To Grimes Manufacturing Corp, Urbana, OH keeping c/r N37L.

    24 September 1964

    To Air International, Columbus, OH keeping c/r N37L.

    7 July 1970

    To Golden Isles Aviation Inc, Saint. Simons Island, GA keeping c/r N37L.

    4 December 1970

    Damaged.
    Damaged in forced landing at St. Simons Island, GA, due to inflight fire during alleged drug run.

    December 1970

    To Sheriff, Glynn County, GA keeping c/r N37L.
    Seized.

    14 March 1977

    To John Hanson, Manistee, MI keeping c/r N37L.
    Trucked disassembled from GA to Manistee for restoration.

    Markings Applied: 48

    2 February 1980

    To Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Portage, MI keeping c/r N37L.

    Circa February 1980

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Kalamazoo Aviation History Musuem.
    Trucked disassembled.

    Based at Air Zoo, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    22 July 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Outside Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum

    From 1988 to 1990

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 4899
    Fully dismantled and restored with B-25J nose. Painted as Bettys Dream of the 498th Bomb Squadron which served as an escort ship for the Japanese surrender delegation.

    19 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

    19 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

    24 September 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    1 January 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL37L (B-25H, 43-4899) issued.

    8 September 2017

    Civil registration, N37L, cancelled.

    To Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    Credits
    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
    The B-25 History Project
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield
    Brian Golas
    Mike Henniger

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