B-25 Mitchell In Civil Service

aerovin · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:50 am

This oldie but a goodie was published in 1997 and, though a bit dated now, still has some good information in it including, particularly, detailed individual aircraft histories of all the civil B-25s from the 1940s through, well, 1997.

I just posted a good deal on this book at my website: http://www.aerovintage.com/b25.htm

Lon Moer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2015 1:24 am

Thanks, but I already have a copy. :wink:

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

Scott,

That book has been one of my favorites on the B-25; I have owned my copy for many years now.

You did a great job!

Saludos,

Tulio

JohnB · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2015 9:49 am

A great Christmas gift for any B-25 fan. At that price you certainly can't go wrong.

I have most, if not all, of Scott's books..well researched and well written. The latter quality is sometimes rare in out field of interest.

BTW: Scott's excellent book on the A-26 (Crowood, 2002) is also worth having. In addition to the sections on development and US/foreign military use, it has a very good 25 page section on the type's civil career.

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2015 1:24 pm

Terrific book - keep it right by the desk along with Final Cut. Does this mean there's going to be a second edition?

And speaking of the B-25 book, Scott, do you (or anyone else) have a larger copy of the photo of TB-25N N9622C on page 100 (44-30243, Earl Reinert's plane before he got it)? It's credited to Leo J. Kohn via Donald Felton. I'd like to build a model of this one.

aerovin · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2015 3:43 pm

I appreciate the nice things said about the book.

Chris Brame wrote:

Terrific book - keep it right by the desk along with Final Cut. Does this mean there's going to be a second edition?

I'm glad I did the book but it looks like readers vote with their book purchases and the B-25 book did not sell nearly as well as the various editions of Final Cut on the B-17. Here we are eighteen years later and I am still selling the first printing of the B-25 books. I've dabbled with the idea of updating the histories of the aircraft and selling that as an addendum but decided that was a bunch of work for not a lot of payoff. Short answer is I determined there is a pretty small market for a history on civil B-25s so a second edition is not in the offing.

An online site might be a better option, kind of what I decided to do with Tallmantz material (that was supposed to be a book at one time).

As for the photo Chris mentioned, I will see what is in my photo file....stand by.

phil65 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:13 pm

Can't go wrong at that price, and should make a good read over the holidays/snow days... :wink:

Thanks,
Phil

dirtysidedown430 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:36 pm **Posts:** 336

HJ Hienz 57 used 25s for VIP out of Allegheny Airport I have been told any pics out there

aerovin · **Posted:** Fri Nov 27, 2015 2:06 pm

dirtysidedown430 wrote:

HJ Hienz 57 used 25s for VIP out of Allegheny Airport I have been told any pics out there

I've seen no civil registration records that indicate the Heinz company ever owned a B-25 and there is nothing in the book that ties up to that so it will be interesting to see if anything surfaces about this airplane or airplanes.

dirtysidedown430 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:36 pm **Posts:** 336

The rest of this story is as follows. He just stop out to the Air Heritage hanger because at time David T A20H was there being worked on. He was a upper turret gunner in the rear of a A20G out of England. Can't member his name or his bomb group, but his group put together a book on their unit and he took a ton of 16mm movie on his unit and put it VHS which he drop off at the hanger. Really great stuff on it, shows a P47 towing a glider on D Day plus day to day life unit life, landings takeoffs and the move to France on LST. Plus he dropped a bunch of hand made prop tools for 25s. He worked there he said and he told it was Heniz he worked for but he was.really old when I met him and died after like 4 visits. So I'm thinking maybe he work for a FOB that was a sub Corp of Heniz.

makin' boost · **Posted:** Sat Nov 28, 2015 9:18 pm

I will take one, early Merry Christmas to me .....................

spookythecat · **Posted:** Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:05 pm

Great book. Now if only I could find a copy of your A-26/B-26 book.

gliderman1 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:39 am

"Really great stuff on it, shows a P47 towing a glider on D Day"

Dirtysidedown430,

Any chance of seeing this image of the P-47 towing a glider on D-day?

C Day

dirtysidedown430 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:36 pm **Posts:** 336

Sent you PM

phil65 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 05, 2015 5:46 pm

Got the book today, love it...

Thanks,
Phil

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