List of surviving North American B-25 Mitchells

Main article: North American B-25 Mitchell

There are more than one hundred surviving North American B-25 Mitchells scattered over the world, mainly in the United States. Most of them are on static display in museums, but about 45 are still airworthy.

The Vintage Flying Museum's B-25J, Pacific Prowler

A significant number of these were brought together for Catch-22, a 1970 war film adapted from the book of the same name by Joseph Heller. When Catch-22 began preliminary production, Paramount hired the Tallmantz Aviation organization to obtain available B-25s. Tallmantz president, Frank G. Tallman ended up finding war-surplus aircraft, and eventually gathered not only pilots to fly the aircraft but also a ground support crew to maintain the fleet.

On 18 April 2010, 17 airworthy B-25s took off from the airfield behind the National Museum of the United States Air Force and flew over in formation to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid.^[1]

Surviving aircraft

B-25J 44-28932 Tondelayo

B-25J Mitchell – 44-30069 at Museu Aerospacial in Campos dos Afonsos Air Force Base – Rio de Janeiro

B-25H Barbie III taxiing at Centennial Airport, Colorado

B-25J 45-8883 Grumpy of the Canadian Warplane Heritage

B-25J 44-30832 Take-off Time

B-25D 43-3634 Yankee Warrior

B-25J 43-28222 at Hurlburt Field, Florida

B-25J 44-86772 at the Hill Air Force Base Museum, Hill AFB, Utah

B-25J 44-86725 Super Rabbit at the Evergreen Aviation Museum

B-25J 44-30734 Panchito of Rag Wings and Radial Aircraft

B-25J 44-86843 at Grissom ARB, Indiana

B-25J 44-86872 Little King at Robins AFB, Georgia

B-25J 44-86891 Lazy Daisy Mae at former Castle AFB, California

B-25J-30NC 44-86777 Martha Jean of Blue Yonder, Inc

F-10D 43-3374 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (in Doolittle markings) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

B-25J 44-86893 of the Flying Bulls in Austria

B-25J 44-29507 Sarinah of the Duke of Brabant's Air Force

B-25J 43-28059 Apache Princess at the Fantasy of Flight Museum in Polk City, Florida

B-25J 45-8811 Russell's Raiders at the 2007 International Air Picnic in Góraszka, Poland

Argentina

Under restoration

B-25J

• 44-31173 – under restoration to flightworthiness by Gustavo M. Passano and his team.^[2]

Australia

On display

B-25D

• 41-30222 Hawg-Mouth – Darwin Aviation Museum in Winnellie, Northern Territory.^[3]

Under restoration or in storage

B-25C

• 41-12913 – partially stored at Darwin Aviation Museum in Winnellie, Northern Territory.^[4]
• 41-12924 – partially stored at Darwin Aviation Museum in Winnellie, Northern Territory.^[5]

B-25J

• 44-31508 – under restoration with Reevers Warbirds, Adelaide, South Australia, having been painted in markings of No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron RAAF.^[6]

Austria

Airworthy

B-25J

• 44-86893 Red Bull – based in Salzburg, flown for the Flying Bulls/Red Bull and owned by Aircraft Guarantee Corp Trustee of Onalaska, Texas, USA.^[7][8]

Belgium

Under restoration

B-25J

• 44-30925 – under restoration to static display in WWII Stock condition by Belgian Aviation Preservation Association asbl.^[9]

Brazil

On display

B-25J

• 44-29500 – Museu Eduardo Andre Matarazzo, Bebedouro, São Paulo.^[10]
• 44-30069 – Museu Aerospacial in Campos dos Afonsos Air Force Base, Rio de Janeiro.^[11]
• 44-30245 – Praca das Velhas Aguias in Natal Air Force Base.^[12]

Canada

Airworthy

B-25J

• 45-8883 Hot Gen! (formerly Grumpy) – Canadian Warplane Heritage in Hamilton, Ontario.^[13]

On display

B-25J

• 44-30791 – Alberta Aviation Museum in Edmonton, Alberta. Ex-RCAF 5273, restored in 418 (City of Edmonton Squadron) markings as FW251 Daisy Mae.^[14]
• 44-86699 – Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario.^[15]
• 44-86724 – CFB Winnipeg in Manitoba.^[16]

In Storage

B-25J

• 44-86726 – Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin, Alberta.^[17][18]

Ecuador

On display

B-25J

• 44-86866 – Museo Aeronautico de la FAE Ecuadorian, Quito Air Force Base, partially restored and repainted in the famous "Apache Princess livery"^[19]

France

Crashed in 2011. Damaged beyond economical repair.

B-25J

• 45-8811 Russell's Raiders – at the Société de Développement et de Promotion de l'Aviation in La Ferté-Alais.^[20]

Indonesia

Indonesian Air Force B-25 Mitchell at Satriamandala Museum in Jakarta

On display

B-25J

• 44-29022 / M-433 – Indonesian Air Force Academy Collection in Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta.^[21]
• 44-29023 / M-434 – Gate guardian at Abdul Rachman Saleh Air Force Base in Malang, East Java.^[22][23]
• 44-29032 / M-443 – Dirgantara Mandala Museum in Adisutjipto Air Force Base, Special Region of Yogyakarta.^[24]
• 44-30399 / M-458 – Satriamandala Museum in South Jakarta, Jakarta.^[25]

Mexico

On display

B-25J

• 44-29128 – Museum of Technology in Mexico City.^[26]

Under Restoration

B-25J

• 44-29145 – San Juan de Aragon Park in Mexico City.^[27]
• 44-30692 – San Juan de Aragon Park in Mexico City.^[28]

Netherlands

Airworthy

B-25J

• 44-29507 Sarinah.^[29]

On display

B-25D

• 41-30792 – Overloon War Museum in Overloon.^[30]

B-25J

B-25J 44-31258 in Dutch East Indies markings, on display at the Nationaal Militair Museum

• 44-31258 – Nationaal Militair Museum in Soesterberg.^[31][32]

Papua New Guinea

On display

B-25C

• 41-12442 – Aitape High School in Tadji.^[33]
• 41-12830 – Papua New Guinea National War Museum off the coast of Wanigela.^[34]

Russia

On display

B-25D

• 43-3355 – Moscow Air Force Museum.^[35]

Spain

On display

B-25J

• 44-29121 – Museo del Aire, Madrid.^[36]

United Kingdom

On display

B-25J

• 44-29366 Always Dangerous! – Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre in East Kirkby, Lincolnshire.^[37]
• 44-31171 – American Air Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire.^[38]

Under restoration

B-25J

• 44-30861 – Formerly used as a camera aircraft for the films The War Lover and 633 Squadron. Under restoration at Wings Museum, Balcombe, Sussex.^[39]

United States

Airworthy

B-25

• 40-2168 Miss Hap – based at the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale, NY. This aircraft was the fourth off the North American production line in 1940 and was designated an RB-25 (the "R" indicating restricted from combat, not a reconnaissance aircraft) and was assigned to General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold in 1943 and 1944. It was later sold to Howard Hughes in 1951 and took Elizabeth Taylor to the funeral of her husband, Mike Todd. Hughes sold the aircraft in 1961.^[40][41]

B-25D

• 43-3318 Grumpy – based at the Historic Flight Foundation in Spokane, Washington.^[42][43]
• 43-3634 Rosie's Reply (formerly Yankee Warrior) – Combat Veteran served with the 12th AF, 57th BW, 340th BG, 489th BS (8 combat missions). Based at the Yankee Air Museum in Ypsilanti, Michigan. This aircraft has been recently repainted and remarked in its original squadron markings and as a flyable tribute to the women known as Rosie the Riveter.^[44][45]

B-25H

• 43-4106 Barbie III – based at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, Texas.^[46][47] Removed from public display when the museum indefinitely closed on 1 January 2024. To be moved to North Texas Regional Airport in Denison, Texas.^[48]
• 43-4432 Berlin Express – based at EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.^[49][50]

B-25J

• 43-27868 Yellow Rose – based at the Commemorative Air Force (Central Texas Wing) in San Marcos, Texas.^[51][52]
• 43-28059 Apache Princess – based at the Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida.^[53][54]
• 43-28204 Pacific Princess – privately owned in Missoula, Montana.^[55]
• 43-35972 Maid in the Shade – based at the Commemorative Air Force (Airbase Arizona) in Mesa, Arizona. This aircraft flew fifteen actual combat missions from Seraggia Airport on the island of Corsica in November and December 1944 as Battle 18 with the distinctive blue tail and blue ring cowls she now displays. She was later an aerial pest spray aircraft and arrived at the then Arizona Wing of the CAF and was in restoration for almost 29 years until her first flight in May 2009. ^[56][57]
• 44-28866 Champaign Gal – based at the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio.^[58][59]
• 44-28925 How Boot That – based at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, Texas.^[60][61] Removed from public display when the museum indefinitely closed on 1 January 2024. To be moved to North Texas Regional Airport in Denison, Texas.^[48]
• 44-28932 Tondelayo (listed as B-25J but had been a TB-25N) – based at the Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts, aircraft was based at the Foundation's maintenance plant at American Aero Services at New Smyrna Beach Airport in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, but in August 2013 the aircraft was moved to Nut Tree Airport in Solano County, California to aid the fundraising campaigns of the Jimmy Doolittle Air and Space Center by offering rides over the San Francisco Bay area.^[62][63]
• 44-28938 Old Glory – privately owned in Latham, New York.^[64] Being restored after non-fatal crash in Stockton, California on 19 September 2020.^[65][66]
• 44-29199 In The Mood – based at the National Museum of World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs, Colorado.^[67][68]
• 44-29465 Guardian of Freedom – based at the Lyon Air Museum in Santa Ana, California.^[69][70]
• 44-29869 Miss Mitchell – based at the Commemorative Air Force (Minnesota Wing) in South St. Paul, Minnesota.^[71][72]
• 44-29939 Briefing Time – based at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania.^[73][74]
• 44-30129 Wild Cargo – based at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia.^[75][76]
• 44-30254 (unnamed) – based at the Flying Heritage Collection in Everett, Washington.^[77][78]
• 44-30423 Photo Fanny – based at the Planes of Fame in Chino, California. This airplane has appeared in numerous movies, e.g. Catch-22 and Forever Young.^[79][80]
• 44-30456 Russian Ta Get Ya – based at the Lewis Air Legends in San Antonio, Texas.^[81][82]
• 44-30606 Tootsie – privately owned in Carson City, Nevada.^[83]
• 44-30734 Panchito – based at the Delaware Aviation Museum in Georgetown, Delaware.^[84][85]
• 44-30748 Heavenly Body – based at the Erickson Aircraft Collection in Madras, Oregon.^[86][87]
• 44-30801 Executive Sweet – based at The Liberty Foundation at Douglas, Georgia.^[88][89]
• 44-30823 God and Country – based at Mid America Flight Museum in Mount Pleasant, Texas.^[90][91]
• 44-30832 Buck U – privately owned in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[92]
• 44-31385 Show Me – based at the Commemorative Air Force (Missouri Wing) in St. Charles, Missouri.^[93][94]
• 44-86697 Killer B – privately owned in Wilmington, Delaware.^[95]
• 44-86698 Paper Doll – based at the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota.^[96][97]
• 44-86725 Super Rabbit – based at the Oklahoma Museum of Flying in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.^[98][99]
• 44-86734 Special Delivery – based at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Houston, Texas.^[100][101]
• 44-86747 Mitch The Witch II – based at the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California.^[102][103]
• 44-86758 Devil Dog – based at the Commemorative Air Force (Devil Dog Squadron) at Georgetown Municipal Airport in Georgetown, Texas; restored as a PBJ-1J.^[104][105]
• 44-86777 Georgie's Gal – based at the Liberty Aviation Museum in Port Clinton, Ohio.^[106][107]
• 44-86785 Georgia Mae – privately owned in Troy, Alabama.^[108]
• 44-86791 (unnamed) – based at the Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California.^[109][110]
• 44-86797 Ol Grey Mare – based at the Lauridsen Aviation Museum in Buckeye, Arizona.^[111][112]
• 45-8835 Betty's Dream – based at the Dakota Territory Air Museum in Minot, North Dakota.^[113][114]
• 45-8884 Lady Luck – privately owned in Blaine, Minnesota.^[115]
• 45-8898 Yankee Doodle – based at the Tri-State Warbird Museum in Batavia, Ohio.^[116][117]

PBJ-1J

44-30988 PBJ Mitchell parked on the ramp at the Commemorative Air Force's Southern California Wing's Museum.

• 44-30988 USN BuNo. 35857 Semper Fi – based at the Commemorative Air Force (Southern California Wing) at Camarillo Airport in Camarillo, California.^[118][119] This aircraft is the only known existing original PBJ-1.^[120]

On display

B-25C

• 41-12634 – Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama.^[121]

B-25D

• 41-29784 Fertile Myrtle – Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.^[122]
• 43-3308 (unnamed) – Freedom Museum in Pampa, Texas. It is on loan from the USMC Museum in Quantico, Virginia.^[123]
• 43-3374 (unnamed) – National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.^[124]

B-25H

B-25H Dog Daize at the New England Air Museum

• 43-4899 (unnamed) – Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.^[125]
• 43-4999 Dog Daize – New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.^{[citation needed]}

B-25J

• 43-4030 Blonde Bomber – South Dakota Air and Space Museum at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota.^[126]
• 43-27712 The Spirit of Al Penn – Pima Air & Space Museum adjacent to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona.^[127]
• 43-28222 (unnamed) – Hurlburt Field, Florida.^{[citation needed]}
• 44-28834 Flo – Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota.^{[citation needed]}
• 44-28875 (unnamed) – Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo, Texas.^{[citation needed]}
• 44-29035 (unnamed) – National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida; painted as a PBJ-1 of VMB-423.^[128]
• 44-29812 Safe Return – National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana.^[129]
• 44-29835 (unnamed) – Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas.^{[citation needed]}
• 44-30077 Mouthy Mitchell – Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum at the former NAS Ford Island in Honolulu, Hawaii.^[130][131]
• 44-30243 (unnamed) – Pendelton Air Museum in Pendelton, Oregon.^[132]
• 44-30363 Desert Bloom – Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska. The museum also features a partial fuselage display of another B-25.^[133]
• 44-30444 (unnamed) – Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.^{[citation needed]}
• 44-30493 (unnamed) – Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, Montana.^{[citation needed]}
• 44-30535 Iron Laiden Maiden – Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas.^{[citation needed]}
• 44-30649 Poopsie – Maxwell AFB, Alabama.^{[citation needed]}
• 44-30854 (unnamed) – Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin AFB in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.^[134] This aircraft, retired in 1960, was the last operational B-25 in the USAF inventory.^[135]
• 44-31004 Mary Alice II – Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama.^[136]
• 44-31032 Problem Child – March Field Air Museum at March ARB (former March AFB) in Riverside, California. It is on loan from the Military Aircraft Restoration Corp in Chino, California.^[137]
• 44-86772 (unnamed) – Hill Aerospace Museum at Hill AFB, Utah.^[138]
• 44-86843 Passionette Paulette – Grissom Air Museum at Grissom ARB (former Grissom AFB) in Indiana.^[139]
• 44-86872 The Little King – Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB in Warner Robins, Georgia.^[140]

B-25J at the National Museum of the Pacific War, in Fredericksburg, Texas.

• 44-86880 (unnamed) – National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas.^{[citation needed]}
• 44-86891 Lazy Daisy Mae – Castle Air Museum at the former Castle AFB in Atwater, California.^[141]

Under restoration or in storage

B-25B

• 40-2347 – fuselage in storage at Aero Trader in Ocotillo Wells, California recently purchased by Kermit weeks of fantasy of flight.^[142]

B-25C

• 41-13251 – to flightworthiness by private owner in San Francisco, California.^[143][144]
• 41-13285 Skunkie – to flightworthiness or display status by South Carolina Historic Aviation Foundation in Columbia, South Carolina.^[145]
• 42-32354 – in storage at Aero Trader in Ocotillo Wells, California. This aircraft was featured in the television series The Twilight Zone, in the September 1960 episode "King Nine Will Not Return".^[146]

B-25J

• 44-28938 Old Glory – crashed in September 2020 in Stockton, California. Under restoration with the Prescott Foundation in Latham, New York.^[147]
• 44-29877 Carol Jean – in storage at the Paul Garber Facility of the National Air and Space Museum in Silver Hill, Maryland.^[148]
• 44-29943 – in storage by private owner in Borrego Springs, California.^[149]
• 44-30203 – for display by the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa, California.^[150]
• 44-30210 – to flightworthiness by private owner in Tulsa, Oklahoma.^[151]
• 44-30324 – to flightworthiness by private owner in San Martin, California.^[152]
• 44-30627 – in storage by private owner in Borrego Springs, California.^[153]
• 44-30733 Sandbar Mitchell – to flightworthiness by Warbirds of Glory Museum in Brighton, Michigan.^[154][155]
• 44-30756 – in storage by private owner in Borrego Springs, California.^[156]
• 44-30761 – in storage by private owner in Borrego Springs, California.^[157]
• 44-86715 – to flightworthiness by Westpac Restorations in Colorado Springs, Colorado.^[158][159]
• 44-86727 – for display as PBJ at Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California.^[160]
• 44-86844 – to flightworthiness by private owner in Virginia Beach, Virginia.^[161]
• 45-8887 Ah'm Available Too – in storage by private owner in Borrego Springs, California.^[162]

TB-25K

• 44-30010 (No Name) At Fargo Air Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, actively being restored by volunteers for display. Was initially a B-25J-25-NC on November 27, 1944. After serving at multiple air bases, it was converted to a TB-25K Radar Trainer on November 30, 1951. It was used as a trainer until it was retired in December of 1957. In 1958 it was purchased and moved to Rockdale, Texas for 25 years, until it was purchased by Gerry Beck in 1983. It remained in his personal hangar until 2010, when it was moved to the Fargo Air Museum.^[163]

TB-25N

• 44-30635 Whiskey Pete – At Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, Alabama, likely undergoing restoration for display. Formerly under restoration at Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum at the former Chanute AFB in Rantoul, Illinois.^[164][165]

Venezuela

On display

B-25J

• 43-28096 – Museo Aeronautico FAV in Maracay Air Force Base.^[166]
• 44-30631 – Teniente Vicente Landaeta Gil AB in Barquisimeto.^[167]

See also

• List of bomber aircraft
• List of military aircraft of the United States