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“Pacific Princess” North American B-25 Mitchell Model, 1/45th Scale, Mahogany, WWII, North American

$299.00

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“Pacific Princess” North American B-25 Mitchell

A beautifully carved North American B-25 Mitchell model!  Each piece is carefully carved and painted to provide a top quality piece.

Length – 21 inches

Wingspan – 16.5 inches

The B-25J-10-NC SN 43-28204 now flying as “Pacific Princess” was completed on June 12, 1944 and delivered on June 15, 1944. Her first assignment was to Kissimee, Florida for aerial gunnery training. She remained in Florida until well after the war attached to the Orlando Field administrative unit. In 1949, she was transferred to the 4th Air Force Headquarters at Robins Field, Georgia. By March of 1950, she was being used as a proficiency aircraft for the medical staff at the USAF Medical School at Brooks Field, Texas. In early August of 1950, she took off VFR from Fairfax Field in Kansas City, Kansas. Upon arrival at Sherman Field, they encountered difficulties with the landing gear. They chose to divert to the Olathe Naval Air Station at New Century, Kansas. A Navy F8F was dispatched to investigate. The left main gear and nose gear were only about half way down, and the bomb bay doors were partially open. After all procedures to correct the situation were exhausted, the B-25 pilot made a normal traffic pattern and approach on runway 13. The B-25 touched down at a reduced speed. The gear failed and the B-25 came to a stop just off the right side of the runway. She would later be lifted and her gear lowered and locked into position. From there she was towed off the runway. A failed hydraulic line was found upon inspection. She would spend the next several months at the Olathe Naval Air Station while repairs were made. She was modified to a TB-25N in December of 1953. The last reported assignment was to Hamilton Field. The following summary of assignments are listed on her record card:

Base Assignments
Date Location Notes
06/20/1944 Kissimee, FL 901 Base Unit
09/08/1944 Orlando Field, FL 902 Base Unit
07/24/1946 Orlando Field, FL 455 Base Unit
09/29/1946 Orlando Field, FL 466 Base Unit
02/17/1949 Orlando Field, FL 2583 Air Base Group
10/31/1949 Robbins AFB, GA 4th Air Force Command
01/20/1950 Brookley AFB, AL Maintenance
03/28/1950 Brooks AFB, TX 4th Air Force Command
07/10/1950 Hamilton AFB, CA 78th Fighter Instructional Wing
08/06/1950 Olathe Naval Air Station, KS 2472 ARTC
11/30/1950 Tinker AFB, OK Maintenance
06/01/1951 Hamilton AFB, CA WADFR
12/04/1953 Birmingham, AL Conversion to TB-25N
04/22/1954 Hamilton AFB, CA WADFR
12/15/1956 Birmingham, AL Maintenance
03/15/1957 Hamilton AFB, CA WADFR
12/1957 Davis-Monthan, AZ Storage
Declared excess, she was stored at Davis-Monthan AFB until she was sold on September 18, 1958 to Blue Mountain Air Service out of La Grande, Oregon. Her civil registration assigned as N9856C. In May of 1959, a 1000 gallon retardant tank was added and she was used as a fire bomber. In September 1968, she was sold to Filmways, Inc. of Hollywood, California for use in the filming of “Catch 22”. In April 1971 she was sold to Tallmantz Aviation from Santa Ana, California. In May of 1973 she was sold to Ted Itano. She was used as a static prop in the filming of “1941” at Long Beach Airport. She was restored by Aero Traders. In April of 1992, she led the formation of B-25s in a “Missing Man” formation to honor the 50th anniversary of the Doolittle raid. In both August and October of 1995, she launched from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. For the movie “Pearl Harbor”, she took off from the deck of both the USS Lexington and the USS Constellation.

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