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    Airframe Family: North American B-25/PBJ Mitchell
    Latest Model:EB-25J Mitchell
    Last Military Serial:44-86891 USAAF
    Construction Number:108-47645
    Last Civil Registration:N3337G
    Compressed ID:NA EB-25J sn 44-86891 USAAF cn 108-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-25J-30-NC by North American at Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-86891.

    August 1945

    Transferred to South Plains, TX.
    Operated with markings: Lazy Daisy Mae

    Transferred to 4152nd Base Unit, Fields, OH.

    Circa 1945

    Transferred to Wright Patterson.
    Did not see active service. Was utilised as a test aircraft.

    May 1946

    Redesignated as TB-25J.

    By 1947

    Transferred to National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Moffett AFB, CA.

    August 1949

    Transferred to 2750th Air Base Group (AMC), Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.

    December 1955

    Converted to an EB-25J.
    It was a sad day in Jun of 1958, without any fanfaire 44-86891 is placed in the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB and is dropped from inventory.

    June 1958

    Assigned to Davis Monthan AFB, Tuscon, AZ for storage.

    To Lee Roser, Phoenix, AZ with new c/r N3337G.

    Circa 1973


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Harlingen, TX. Marked Shady Lady.

    Circa 16 January 1973


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the Great Miami Air Race.

    10 January 1978

    To Dwight L. Reimer, Shafter, CA keeping c/r N3337G.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1980

    Lt. General Jimmy Doolittle was on hand to accept 44-86891 to become one of the many aircraft at Castle Air Muesum.

    January 1980

    Loaned to Castle Air Museum, Atwater, CA.

    24 September 1982

    Civil registration, N3337G, cancelled.

    Placed on display with Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, CA.
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    By 1991

    Markings Applied: 02344

    2 September 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    March 1993

    Markings Applied: LAZY DAISY MAE, 891
    It has the group insignia of the 345th Bomb. Group (M), the Air Apaches on the tail. The 345th served in New Guinea, the Philippines and ended World War II based on Ie Shima, Okinawa.

    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    1 May 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, CA, USA.
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    American Aviation Historical Society
    American Aviation Historical Society
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Roy Simmons
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