WI March/April 2007

Warbirdnerd · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:34 pm **Posts:** 2923

I know you are not all big fans of this mag, but

Interesting article and pictures on this accident:
http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?ev_id=75295&key=0
The B-25 N9754Z was stolen from Hon Intl by a intoxicated person :shock:

, buzzes the area, nearly hits the control tower and ends up smashing the nose and tearing up the belly hitting a radio tower. The incident is told by one of the controllers on duty that night.
I'm assuming the B-25 was scrapped after this incident... :oops:

Anyone happen to have it's s/n?

Nice pictures and info on Provenance Fighters flyers and projects.

Also the editor directs his angst at better targets this month, the Navy for the Hellcat at Andrews and the USAFM for the Tulare B-17.

A very nice article on owning/operating the L-5 too.

T J Johansen · **Posted:** Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:40 pm

Found this on the net. It is apparently from Air Classics in 2005!

Air Classics wrote:

Another new addition is North American B-25J Mitchell USAAF s/n 44-31504/N9753Z which was delivered on 14 June 1945. With the end of the war near, the aircraft went into storage but was overhauled as a TB-25J in 1951. The Royal Canadian Air Force acquired the machine and operated it as RCAF 5218 at the Advanced Flying School, Saskatoon. The RCAF disposed of the aircraft in February 1962.

The Mitchell, along with N9754Z, gravitated to Hawaii. The planes were used in the 1964 film In Harm's Way and N9754Z was heavily damaged when an apparently drunk pilot hit a building during a low-altitude buzz. He managed to make a safe landing. Over the years, the planes rotted away at the airport, but N9753Z was acquired by at technical school at Honolulu Airport. N9754Z was eventually mocked-up with a single tail and blown up during the filming of Tora! Tara! Tora! After the tech school was finished with the Mitchell, it became a gate guard at Hickam AFB where it remained until being recently moved to Ford Island for the new museum.

Didn't the other one (N9753Z) also end up in pretty sorry state?

T J

corsair166b · **Posted:** Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:12 pm

Watched Tora Tora last night....only scene I can think of where it might've had a single tail and got blown up is the 'Marauder' in the hangar when the Japanese pilot kamikazes his Zero into the building....anyone concur?

M

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