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Aircraft Designations - B-25 type
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:44 am
by gary1954
With regard to the designation on the B-25, I understand that there was the
TB - trainer
VB - I believe VIP
RB - Recon
Now what the heck is a JB-25? is this a Training Hack
Always learning stuff and forgetting even more. Thanks in advance.
Re: Aircraft Designations - B-25 type
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:56 pm
by C-47B
Don't forget these two:
F-10 ----- Photo Recon B-25
AT-24 ---- Twin engine trainer B-25 type
And there is the USN version: PBJ-1
Good Luck with your research.
TonyM
Re: Aircraft Designations - B-25 type
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 12:40 pm
by C-47B
gary1954 wrote:With regard to the designation on the B-25,
Now what the heck is a JB-25? is this a Training Hack
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Perhaps the JB-25 designation (which I never heard of) is an inadvertent distortion of the USN B-25 desgination of PBJ-1 ?
Just a thought.
TonyM.
Re: Aircraft Designations - B-25 type
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:48 am
by C-47B
To Gary1954:
RB-25 is not a "Recon" version.
The R is for "Restricted", such as in RB-26 or RP-38 or RP-322 or RP-40. The "R" designation for Recon came out much later than WWII, like RF-101C, RB-57 or RF-4C, which are Viet Nam era.
Dedicated "Recon" type ships during WWII seem to be "F" prefix, such as F-9, F-10, F-7 or F-6, etc.
Earlier on, there were designations of "Observation" types, such as O-47 or O-56. By the end of the war this designation had been phased out.
TonyM.