[ARC5] Oh, Brother...

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On 10/4/05, jay_coward at agilent.com <jay_coward at agilent.com> wrote:
> Yes this was the camera platform for "The Battle of Britain" and I graduated West Essex High in 1971.The aircraft had been there for several years and the cockpit had been left open to the weather.Sad.Don't know what ever happened to it.Long gone to the scrapper or restored?

It's still around, although apparently back to being derelict:

Tom Cangialosi sends along an interesting photo of 44-31508 (N6578D)
taken in New Jersey in 1975. This B-25 was used as the cameraship for
the filming of the Battle of Britain in England in 1968. At that
point, it was owned by Euramericair, a company operated by Jeff Hawke.
Hawke also flew the airplane for the filming. After the filming was
completed, a series of legal problems followed the airplane, not
uncommon for Hawke and his airplanes. It was derelict at Caldwell, New
Jersey, when this photo was taken. It went to Tom Reilly in 1977 and
was returned to airworthy condition and operated as Chapter IX. It was
later sold, and is now going derelict again, this time at Franklin,
Virginia.

This is from the Aero Vintage page. There's a picture there as well
under March 2004, with the glass nose completely off:

http://www.aerovintage.com/b25news.htm

They also have an interesting story of the B-25C pulled from the lake
in SC last month. If you follow the link to the page, you'll find some
interesting photos of items like BC-375 tuning units and these
puppies:

http://community.webshots.com/photo/462639187/462676212NdDvLl

They look to have fared far worse than the plane did!