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B-17G N3703G Moves to Palm Springs

B-17G N3703G “The Movie Memphis Belle” Moves to Palm Springs As widely reported elsewhere but nonetheless reported here, B-17G 44-83546 (N3703G), also known as the

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Tallmantz Aviation

Tallmantz P-40s

I just added the individual aircraft histories of the six P-40s that were associated with Paul Mantz, Frank Tallman, and/or Tallmantz Aviation though the years.

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Update on the Site

Obviously…I have not updated these posts in some time…and in that time much has changed. The B-17G known as 909 crashed in October 2019 with the

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EAA B-25H Flies after restoration

[siteorigin_widget class=”shuttle_builder_imagetheme”][/siteorigin_widget] EAA Facebook page reports and shows video of B-25H 43-4432 (N10V) , as Berlin Express, making its first post-restoration flight today (Saturday, April

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Miss Angela gets polished

[siteorigin_widget class=”shuttle_builder_imagetheme”][/siteorigin_widget] Greg Strathatos and B-17 Archaeology  spent a week this month doing a beautiful polish of B-17G 44-85778 (N3509G) at the Palm Springs Air

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B-25 “El Jarocho” NL75831

[siteorigin_widget class=”shuttle_builder_imagetheme”][/siteorigin_widget] Going through some photos I came across this one of an early civil B-25 and early production B-25. This is actually the third

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Desert Rat Update

James Church, he of the great Warbirds Digest magazine, recently sent me some photos taken in January 2019 of the restoration effort underway at Marengo,

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