633 Squadron's Cameraship B-25

Which was the knackered looking one that used to sit outside at Duxford?

Any pics?

If this is the only one at Booker it answers the question of which one i saw earlier this year.

is this the one with the cut wingspar?

Well I understand it was used as a camera ship and its a B25 i would guess there arent to many around in the UK in private hands so i guess we are talking about the same aircraft.

I have posted before about N9089Z. As a teenage volunteer at Southend I helped out on many of the aircraft at various times.
She was moved to Southend from Biggin Hill by a crew from Aviation Traders. The spar bolts wouldn’t shift so it was impossible to remove the wing centre section. Apparently the crew foreman decided that the best way round the problem was to take a chainsaw to the mainspar ensuring that she would never fly again.
After the museum became the Historic Aircraft Museum and moved to the compound on Aviation Way the Mitchell became the baby of Stan and David Brett who later formed Rebel Air Museum although many others mucked in along the way. Stan and David spent hundreds of hours on the Mitchell and made up very realistic wooden guns for all the gun positions. Without their work it is unlikely she would ever have got to the presentable condition she was in when first displayed at Southend.
The problems at Southend started when the original curator left shortly after the opening. His departure was as a result of infighting amongst other senior staff one of whom appeared to want his job.
The new curator (appointed from the existing senior staff) appeared to do little to maintain the exhibits and spent much time entertaining his secretary in his office with the door locked. He also banned all the volunteers from the museum.
I believe it was when Ian Huddleston was appointed overall manager of the complex by Queens Moat House that this situation changed as Ian had an interest in aviation and he recognised that there were problems at the museum and took steps to address them.
He appointed Bill Gent (who had been a volunteer since the BHAM days and was also a former employee of the first owners of the Historic Aircraft Museum) as curator but by then it would have needed a very large fortune to right the many years of neglect. Bill did a great deal during his comparatively short time as curator and received a great deal of help from many people on the airfield including Bob Batt, Wren Aircraft Services, Aviation Traders and particularly Nigel Brendish from Harvestair who arranged the loan of the Leisure Sport WW1 replicas but the money to carry out proper repairs on all the aircraft just wasn’t available and neither was the workforce so the decision was made to close.
I look back at my time at the museum with many happy memories tempered by the thought of what might have been. The plans at the outset, particularly those for keeping some exhibits airworthy were ambitious and some were never realised but the original owners do deserve credit for a brave venture (where else at that time could you see a Storch and Harvard in the UK) which must have drained a lot of their money and, with the right management over the years and a bit more help from the local council (who refused to allow signposting to the museum) might just have survived.