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noizeedave
 Post subject: B-25 REPORT
PostPosted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:12 am 
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Does anyone know what happened to the San Juan de Argo Park B-25's in the park down in Mexico? Are they still there and what city are they in if they are still at this park?

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One of those puzzles! The locator list on the aerovintage site doesn't give further news.
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I know. i heard at a time they were for sale to get rid of them. Never heard nay more news and would be interested in either trying to get them or atleast visit and photograph them if any knows where this park in mexico is.

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Would these be the two??

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yes those are exactly the 2 im talking about!

do you know where they are?

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Oh my God....... those are two sad looking machines.

I'm getting in the car right now and getting down there to save one of them..... unless somebody's that has the same idea and lives closer.

Does anyone know if either were RCAF birds?

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Ive been trying for 2 years to find the location of these and resuce them!@ they need lovin!

any information will help.

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As much as I try to google the name of the park I can't find anything.

Clues anyone?

Oh, and I'd love to help you get those into a better place.

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wELL lets find um and well work something out. i hear they are in Mexico City, a suburb right out side of it.

Exact location unknown.

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good, a starting point.... I'm going to unroll my extra large google map now and take a look.

Oh wait... Mexico City is HUGE..... This'll take me a while... haha

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FOUND EM......!!!!!!!


shush.... I'm at work right now.... and I'll get back to you shortly when I'm done work.

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This is from aerovintage.com B-25 News, January 2002:

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A message posted on the Flyingzone.co.uk web site provides information about the two B-25s long derelict in Mexico City possibly going to be scrapped. The writer, Mr. Bernardo Zarallo, was seeking someone, anyone, who might be interested in helping to save the airplanes. Here is a photo of one of the airplanes that was posted with the message. Thanks to Coert Munk and Jim Church for this heads up.


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Noted last month was a bit about two derelict B-25s located in Mexico City. These airplanes remain unidentified but Geoff Goodall, he of the noted publication Warbirds Directory, thinks they are probably 44-30692 (N9623C) and 44-29145 (N9877C). This is no doubt correct, though not confirmed. Both airplanes went to the ICAO Civil Aviation Training Center in Mexico City in 1965 and one was an ex-B-25 tanker. A photo of one of the B-25s clearly shows a retardant tank installed.


There were two other B-25s in Mexico City; one is still on a pylon in Chapultepec Park and the other was gutted out and had slides and ladders mounted on it in a kids' playground, but that one was supposedly scrapped. My local Aztec Indian informants said they saw it in a junkyard, but that was years ago...

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I think we are now talking about three B-25s in Mexico City.

There are the two first mentioned in this thread and the one at Chapultepec Park is an entirely different airplane.

Depending how old the google sattelite images are, I would have to say that all three still exist as complete airframes.

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I Googled "Mexico Air Spotters" and the result includes a link to Andre du Pont's photo album on JetPhotos.Net. His last picture post was in March this year ( so I would guess he is still active )

The link to contact him directly is here ..... http://www.jetphotos.net/members/contac ... to=6208536

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anybody heard anything about these birds,were they scrapped or still there? for sale recovered?????
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