There are around 100 B25s left. About 45 of them in flying condition. Well, maybe 44 now. It’s not as bad as B-17s or most WWII aircraft of which there are very few. B25s kept flying until 1960 in the US and the 1970s in other countries. So there are comparatively more around.
Glad the crew all survived it.
We had a b17 crash outside of Hartford last year. It killed a bunch of people.
That was a shame—not only for those injured—but also for the lost aircraft.
We had a B-25 at an air show last week here at Lake if the Ozarks.
My dad was a hydraulics & pheumatics tech in the USAF Reserves. The Airlift Group to which he was attached has a B-25 that the commander used as his personal liason craft. They were tasked to work on the nose gear. Well SOMEBODY re-connected the hydraulic lines backwards. That spring day at Willow Grove NAS they did a taxi test. The pilot cut the nose wheel gear to steer onto the main strip and the plane went the opposite direction, off the taxiway sinking the nose gear into the mud about halfway up the strut. The colonel was not a happy man.