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    Airframe Family: North American B-25/PBJ Mitchell
    Latest Model:B-25N Mitchell
    Last Military Serial:44-30861 USAAF
    Construction Number:108-34136
    Last Civil Registration:N9089Z
    Compressed ID:NA B-25N sn 44-30861 USAAF cn 108-3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Wings Museum, Balcombe, Handcross, West Sussex, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-25N.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-30861.

    From 1959 to 1963

    To American Compressed Steel Corp/Aero American Corp, Cincinatti, OH with new c/r N9089Z.

    From 1961 to 1964

    Based in the UK as a camera aircraft for filming several movies.

    Circa 1962


    Photographer: Breeden Collection
    Notes: Biggin Hill

    From 1963 to 1966

    To Aero Associates Inc, Tucson, AZ keeping c/r N9089Z.

    9 May 1964


    Photographer: Steve Bond
    Notes: B-25 N9089Z Film Services at Biggin Hill (UK) on 9 May 1964

    From 1966 to 1 January 1967

    To Malcolm D. N. Fisher/Historical Aircraft Preservation Society, Biggin Hill, keeping c/r N9089Z.

    1967

    To British Historic Aircraft Museum, Southend.

    12 August 1969


    Photographer: John Smith
    Notes: 1969 photo of B-25N Mitchell taken at Southend Airport Museum by John Smith

    1971

    Restoration completed.
    Markings Applied: HD368, VO-A
    In the brown and green of 98 Squadron.

    31 January 1971


    Photographer: AAAAAAAAA Terry Jacobs 31-1-1971 and 13-12-2018
    Notes: After the move from the Eastern Perimiter at Southend Airport, we moved HD368/N9089Z to the new location just-off airport for the Historic Aircraft Museum-Southend to be open to the public in 1972. The move was undertaken during the weekend of the 18th October 1970 along with the other aircraft from the main-airport and being able to utilise the main-runway as the best route, was a very slow process as well as over rough ground too.

    14 May 1974


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: On display at the Historic Aircraft Museum at Southend Airport painted to represent Mitchell III HD 368 of 98 Squadron 2nd Tactical Air Force RAF.

    Circa 1976


    Photographer: Kenneth M. Hare Collection
    Notes: Mitchell III HD368 98 Squadron at Southend Municipal Ap., Essex

    14 January 1977

    Civil registration, N9089Z, cancelled.

    To John Hawke/Visionair.

    To Aces High, Duxford.

    1987

    Transported by ground.
    To North Weald.

    1989

    To Fighter Collection, Duxford.

    2006

    Transported by ground.
    Moved to Wycombe Air Park - stored in a dismantled state.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Parkhouse Aviation, Wycombe Air Park, Booker-Lane End, Buckinghamshire/Bucks, England.
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    Markings Applied: Bedsheet Bomber

    25 March 2013


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2013 photo in storage at Wycombe Air Park, Booker - N9089Z North American TB-25J Mitchell C/n 108-34136 Preserved (In two pieces. Back end on the left and the front / nose in the middle)

    4 February 2017

    Civil registration, N9089Z, cancelled.

    July 2019

    To Wings Museum, Balcombe, Handcross, West Sussex, England.
    Undergoing rebuild in the workshop.
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    25 July 2021


    Photographer: Andrew Appleton
    Notes: The forward fuselage of B-25 N9089Z in the workshop at Wings Aviation Museum on 25 July 2021.


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