Location of Hanover Street Mitchells

151632 Gorgeous George Ann / Thar She Blows B-25J-30NC 44-30925 N9494Z Brussels Air Museum
151645 Marvellous Miriam B-25J-20NC 44-29366 N9115Z RAF Museum Hendon
151790 Amazing Andrea B-25J-30NC 44-86701 N7681C Destroyed – Hangar Fire
151863 Big Bad Bonnie B-25J-30NC 44-86843 N9455Z Grissom Air Museum
151724 Brenda’s Boys B-25J-20NC 44-29121 N86427 Museo del Aire, Madrid, Spain

There you go……all from memory 😀

151632 Gorgeous George Ann / Thar She Blows B-25J-30NC 44-30925 N9494Z Brussels Air Museum
151645 Marvellous Miriam B-25J-20NC 44-29366 N9115Z RAF Museum Hendon
151790 Amazing Andrea B-25J-30NC 44-86701 N7681C Destroyed – Hangar Fire
151863 Big Bad Bonnie B-25J-30NC 44-86843 N9455Z Grissom Air Museum
151724 Brenda’s Boys B-25J-20NC 44-29121 N86427 Museo del Aire, Madrid, Spain

There you go……all from memory 😀

Wow such an answer in only 5 minutes. When will you demontrate your skills at Mastermind or the Weakest Link?

5 minutes :eek::confused:

Propstrike,
WOW. FIVE minutes. One of the fastest responses I´ve ever seen ;):D:D

Thank you so much. Now I can tell the co-pilot of Marvellous Miriam where his aircraft is located. I´m sure he will go over there and pat her!

What I meant was I remembered to look on Wiki..:cool:

Sometimes I feel stupid, other times I feel REALLY stupid 😉
To my defence I must say I tried to google 😀 Apparently using the wrong search words 😉

Worry not, I am always happy to chip in with any thread on this movie.

It was filmed just 4 miles over the hill from my house, and when I was 13, it was the highlight of my year. We knew they were coming very soon, and then one afternoon I got a phone call from my school-chum, who held his phone out of the front door so I could hear five Mitchells blasting over his house on short finals to Bovingdon!

For anyone who might not be aware the ‘Mitchells Do Fly In IMC” film documentary is posted ( in parts ) on YouTube.

Big Bad Bonnie

Big Bad Bonnie’s at Chino with Dave Tallichet’s collection isn’t it?

( and I’ve just checked with Wikipedia which agrees!)

Tony Andrews

For anyone who might not be aware the ‘Mitchells Do Fly In IMC” film documentary is posted ( in parts ) on YouTube.

Thanks for the heads up. 🙂
Sadly the final part is not available in my country. 🙁

Big bad Bonnie

Who was it that owned/operated Bonnie in the UK in the 1980s? was it Jeff Hawkes? I remember its UK display career ended when it blew an engine & was left grounded on a French airfield.
Myford

A fun day out.

Mark

Who was it that owned/operated Bonnie in the UK in the 1980s? was it Jeff Hawkes? I remember its UK display career ended when it blew an engine & was left grounded on a French airfield.
Myford

Hawke was involved, as well as a guy named Rodney Small who also operated a Dove/ Devon.

T J

For anyone interested I still have a few copies left of the DVD I made of the original video shown on channel 4, B25 Mitchells do fly in IMC… when this subject first appeared on here some years ago. Just PM me your address.

I was just thumbing through an old issue of Flypast, and found Tony Howarth’s ad for “Mitchells do fly in IMC”. There is also an offer for T-shirts at £4.00. Did anyone actually buy them?

T J

There is also an offer for T-shirts at £4.00. Did anyone actually buy them?

T J

Buy them ?

I have worn nothing else since 1984 ( and I bought just one )

Haven’t seen that film in ages, but it does mean that there’s probably another bomber for my movie star models list….!

Ah, Hanover Street. I remember the scene where the B-25 is struck by German flack. Top secret German flack that can kill everyone on the plane with one shot apart from the two main characters.

The story of recoving the Brussels one….http://www.bamfbamrs.be/B25/B25-en.htm

and an up to date progress page http://www.bapa.aero/Workshop%20B-25.htm

151632 Gorgeous George Ann / Thar She Blows B-25J-30NC 44-30925 N9494Z Brussels Air Museum
151645 Marvellous Miriam B-25J-20NC 44-29366 N9115Z RAF Museum Hendon
151790 Amazing Andrea B-25J-30NC 44-86701 N7681C Destroyed – Hangar Fire
151863 Big Bad Bonnie B-25J-30NC 44-86843 N9455Z Grissom Air Museum
151724 Brenda’s Boys B-25J-20NC 44-29121 N86427 Museo del Aire, Madrid, Spain

I just had a quick look at the Warbird Registry entries for these aircraft and noticed that 44-86843 is not listed as having been used in Hanover Street. It also lists a different N-number for this airframe (N3507G instead of N9455Z). I guess that may just be an incomplete entry in the registry, or are we mixing up Mitchells?

If I look at N9455Z in the FAA database, this appears to be 44-30210, not 44-86843. That means that the list posted by Propstrike in post #2 should be amended as follows:

151863 Big Bad Bonnie B-25J-30NC 44-30210 N9455Z Tulsa, OK.

All three are former Hanover Street B-25s. The first is N9115Z which was used by Hawke for several airshow appearances in 1978-79. Maybe even later. I think this is the 25 in which the turret came off during a display. You can see the old paint job shine through on the cowls, nose and fins. The second is N86427 and the colors/ nose- art were used in the movie Yanks. The third is N9455Z which later flew with Hawke/ Mitchell Flight. This is the one that ended up derelict in Avignon until Dave Tallichet came back and returned it to flying condition. They then flew it back to the US, the only one of the five to return to its country of origin.

T J