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Registration: N88972

Construction Number: 100-23644

Code Number: VO-B

Model North American B-25D Mitchell

Operator: Robert J. Pond

Airport: Boscombe Down (EGD / EGDM), UK - England

Airshow: Boscombe Down - Air Tournament International - 1992

Photographer: Martin Laycock

Date Taken: 13/06/1992

Date Submitted: 31/03/2010

Photographed displaying during Air Tournament International 92 at Boscombe. This B-25 was part of an RAF order but was diverted to the RCAF as KL161. Entering service on the 19th January 1945 she was struck off charge on the 12th February 1962. She was put on the civil register as CF-OGQ, then N88972, used for a while as a Firebomber before being stored at Fairbanks Alaska. She was bought by Robert J. Pond in October 1987 who owned her until 1995. During this time she was operated in the UK by the Fighter Collection before being registered to them as G-BYDR on the 22nd March 1999. She has since returned to the USA and new owners the Historic Flight Foundation at Paine Field, Washington state.

Picture ID:1224086

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