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Taken at the Open house of 1980...or so. Taken with an Instamatic, so forgive the poor quality!

It's N86427, ended up since 1988 in the Museo del Aire “Ejercito del Aire”, Cuatro Vientos, Spain as “41-30338 / 74-17”

Has to be way earlier than 1980 - these are markings it had before it went to England for the filming of Hanover Street - that was what, 1977?

The Mitchell arrived with others in May 1978 at Luton Airport (UK) after the well known ferry over the Atlantic via the Azores, shown in the documentary "B-25 Mitchells Do Fly IMC". So the pictures are from the mid seventies or earlier. When I recall well, the camouflage scheme dates from the mid sixties, should check that.

Lol, well the first thing is...these are photos I took, not found on the net.

I remember that I was there alone at the show and I did not get my drivers lic till I was 16 in 76. So that dates it to 76 or later.

Second, I cropped out the tower on one of these pics where you can clearly see the bicentennial emblem, so again 76 ish.

I THOUGHT I had posted pics of the CAF's Sentimental Journey. I really did! Looking at their website they got her in 78 and put on her nose turret in 79. So the pics I have of her show no nose turret. Which means the show was sometime in late 78 or early 79. In fact it is not too much to say that it could have stopped at Travis on its way to Seattle to have the nose turret installed.

I also have pics from that show of two P-40s, including Sue Parishes bird, a B-23, F4U in French colors, a P-51h (Mike Couches???) and a number of other aircraft. I guess looking at some of the other and when they were painted/registered/ex would more fully make my case. But all in all, my memory plus the history of SJ I think is enough?

But thanks for the IDs!! I really appreciate it!

I think they look just fine. Nice of you to share them with us.

Coert Munk wrote:The Mitchell arrived with others in May 1978 at Luton Airport (UK) after the well known ferry over the Atlantic via the Azores, shown in the documentary "B-25 Mitchells Do Fly IMC". So the pictures are from the mid seventies or earlier. When I recall well, the camouflage scheme dates from the mid sixties, should check that.

Concur on the time frame on this one ...86427 was also a B-25 flown by late Ever-So-Great LTG Jimmy Doolittle for the 15th anniversary of the Tokyo Raiders.

Gary,
Don't you miss 10years? N86427 became civil in July 1959 and flew as such in April 1967 during the 25th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid at Alameda NAS.
C

Coert Munk wrote:Gary,
Don't you miss 10years? N86427 became civil in July 1959 and flew as such in April 1967 during the 25th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid at Alameda NAS.
C

not even I can trust my memory any more...thanks

Totally awesome!!! This is so cool to see this pic- and I can verify its pre 1978. ! It looked like this on Saturday June 11, 1977 when it did fly bys at the Petaluma airport airshow- my first airshow- 10 years old. It did not land. George Perez's Mustang also flew at the show, pretty exciting watching it have to make two attempts to take off from the shorter old runway, which back then was on the south side of the airport. Thanks for posting - kind of always hoped I would see this looking like it did when I saw it. First warbirds I ever saw in person, and right during the middle of the start of my getting into them.