mexico city b25s, where are they now?

camshaw · **Posted:** Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:13 pm

I heard a while back the b25s that were sitting in the local park were to be brought back to the states? Is this baloney or nonsense or fact? anybody know there where abouts these days? thanks....cam

zorro9 · **Joined:** Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:11 pm **Posts:** 671

camshaw:

At least one of them was rescued fm a park near Mexixo City c. 2010-11. Then it was xfer to a Mexican AB for restoration.

p.s I believe there was a previous thread on them on Wix.

DaveG · **Posted:** Sat Dec 21, 2013 5:18 am

zorro9 wrote:

camshaw:

p.s I believe there was a previous thread on them on Wix.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=49630

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:39 pm

There was rumors swirling around awhile back that they and been scrapped! Don't know if there is any truth to the rumors or not.

DaveM2 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:35 pm

No truth-they are at a Mexican AFB, one restoration nearly completed. Hope to have the story in the next CW

JohnB · **Posted:** Tue Dec 24, 2013 6:50 pm

While we're on the subject of Mexico City warbirds...whatever became of the Mosquito that was down there and eventually crumbled away.
Were any parts saved...it might be nice to know since you can build a new Mossie with a few old metal bits.

camshaw · **Posted:** Tue Dec 24, 2013 6:57 pm

DaveM2 wrote:

No truth-they are at a Mexican AFB, one restoration nearly completed. Hope to have the story in the next CW

so the cartel restores warbirds now, how cool!............lol

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Tue Dec 24, 2013 7:09 pm

JohnB wrote:

While we're on the subject of Mexico City warbirds...whatever became of the Mosquito that was down there and eventually crumbled away.
Were any parts saved...it might be nice to know since you can build a new Mossie with a few old metal bits.

Yes, although it's been a while:
http://www.mossie.org/TA717.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=6nbDN5 ... 22&f=false

Note in the 1979 photos the cowlings had been replaced with corrugated metal, although in the October 1974 Air Classics article they were intact.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Wed Dec 25, 2013 10:15 am

their engines are probably warming up w/the bomb bays full of weed!! the u.s. dept of immigration / homeland security is impotent.

CoastieJohn · **Joined:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:37 pm **Posts:** 1380

A touch of topic but still "south of the border".....

I was looking around last night (Wiki) and seen there is (was) a museum in Havana, Cuba that has an A-26 and a P-51. The museum was closed in 2010 for some reason and the aircraft moved to a nearby air force base. There was no other info besides that. I have not read anything on here about that museum nor it's contents.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

There was a Sea Fury on display in Cuba also. It might have been in a plaza though as opposed to a museum.

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Mon Dec 30, 2013 11:23 am

Getting on the topic of just *Warbirds South of the Border* I found this B-25 in Venezuela at the Jacinto Lara International Airport in Barquisimeto

Looks like it's kept company by an F-86D and an F-5.

zorro9 · **Joined:** Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:11 pm **Posts:** 671

The B-25 near Mexico City c. 1970s. Reg XL-7? Photo Via AEC.

CoastieJohn · **Joined:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:37 pm **Posts:** 1380

Seen the below on Aerovintage. Seems a few of B-25's found their way into the Caribbean and Mexico.

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Unknown B-25 crash at Kingston Jamaica?

Postby Coert Munk » Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:53 am

Hi all,

Our B-25 PH-XXV (44-29507, ex N320SQ etc) 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.

All the best,

Coert

george · **Joined:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:20 pm **Posts:** 435

Its interesting that so many Billys ended up "south of the border".

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