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Hi all,

The B-25 44-29507, registered N3698G landed in August 1964 at Kingston Jamaica with a problem in the exhaust manifold. In the story that was written on that flight, the following is indicated: "A B-25 two months before us had similar trouble but was not so lucky. It caught fire and had to land at Kingston, a total loss". That must have been somewhere in May-June-July 1964.

Question is very simple? What's the ID of this crashed B-25? The NTSB database reports several B-25 mishaps in the sixties, but not at Kingston Jamaica.

Look forward to hear!
All the best,

Coert

Might be in the Baugher database, but you'd have to trawl through darn near 10,000 serial #'s unless you got lucky.

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I would start here; B-25 Registry.
It's shorter than the Baugher database.

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Pulled up "B-25" under Search, then hit Ctrl/F and typed in "Jamaica" to search the results - 0 found.

Scott (aerovin), could you check your database?

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Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Not sure if it is any help, but there's an article titled "Hauling Explosives in B-25 Can Take Fun Out of Flying" in the 12 July 1964 issue of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that mentions a flight to Kingston. There's a good chance the airplane mentioned in the article is Devil Dog, 44-86758. I remember being told at Thunder Over Michigan that it still had the notches in the bomb bay from where they cut gouges to hold the giant rubber bands they used to carry the nitroglycerine.


For future reference, there's also a search engine for Baugher's lists.

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For what it is worth, found no mention of it on the Aviation Safety database for that period.

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My files are not easily accessible right now but my civil histories in B-25 Mitchell in Civil Service don't show an aircraft that was burned to a total loss at Kingston. However, there are many B-25s that appeared on the civil registry in the late 1950s/early 1960s that then just 'disappeared' with no further record...the FAA later just cancelled the registrations. I would presume it was one of these. I seem to recall doing some research about that mysterious B-25 and came up empty handed.

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Quite easily could be apocryphal or even a B-26, many of which also 'disappeared' in that era.

Google “Kingston Jamaica digital archives”

Plenty of old airplanes.