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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.
On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.
In September 1939, the Air Corps ordered the NA-62 into production as the B-25, along with the other new Air Corps medium bomber, the Martin B-26 Marauder "off the drawing board". North American B-25 Mitchell production in Kansas City in 1942. Early into B-25 production, NAA incorporated a significant redesign to the wing dihedral. The first ...
Northwest Flight 255 Memorial Stone at GM Proving Ground, Milford, Michigan Northwest Flight 255 memorial plaque in downtown Phoenix. In memory of the victims, a black granite memorial was erected in 1994; it stands (surrounded by blue spruce trees) at the top of the hill at Middlebelt Road and I-94, the site of the accident. [22]
The crash of Beechcraft C-45F Expeditor 44-87142 of the 4000th AAF Base Unit, [316] two miles south of Windsor, Ontario, killed three officers and two enlisted men from the 4140th Base Unit at Wright Field in Ohio who had left the base at 18:05 on a flight to Selfridge Field in Michigan to prepare air shows throughout the country. The twin-prop ...
Map of the incident made by the NTSB, showing the B-25's actual path and the path Smits thought it was on. Karns flew up to 20,000 feet (6,100 m) in a circular pattern over the course of about an hour. Unable to see the ground, he communicated with the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center to know his plane's position. [20]
25 0 25: 71 Imber friendly fire incident [36] 13 April 1942 Imber, England Hawker Hurricane: 25 8 33 † N/A Svetlogorsk Antonov An-26 crash [37] 16 May 1972 Svetlogorsk, Russia Antonov An-26: 24 10 34: N/A Air Vietnam Douglas DC-6B crash [38] 22 December 1969 Nha Trang, Vietnam Douglas DC-6B: 24 126 150 † 0 Cubana de Aviación Flight 9046 ...
B-24E-25-CF (as built), 41-29075, c/n 67, flown by Howard R. Cosgrove, crashes and burns, killing all seven on board, while B-24E-25-FO (as built), 42-7420, c/n 444, [26] piloted by Carlos N. Clayton, [213] [182] makes a crash landing in a swamp, none of the eight crew suffering serious injury despite the aircraft being virtually demolished.