The date is a guess. Any help on the location is appreciated. Photographer: Not known.

Photographer: Fred Guthrie.

The date is a guess. Any help on the location is appreciated. Photographer: Not known.

Photographer: Not known.

K25 slide scan. Built 1945 as 42-72487 for USAAF, transferred to USN as R5D-3 56489, retired to MASDC 1968. Civilianized as N96451 1980. Central Air Service 1980, stored Eloy, AZ by 1989. Patched up around 1993 and flown to Avra Valley for continued storage. Alaska Air Fuel 2020, remaining in store at Avra Valley.

Into the civil register as N87DT.

K25 slide scan. Built 1945 as 42-72636 for USAAF, transferred to USN as R5D-1 56514, retired to MASDC 1965. Civilianized as N67062 1975. Central Air Service 1976, stored by 1990. Ferried to Riverside, CA 2002 for display at March Field Museum in its original USN colours.

Photo taken during Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of South France. 43-15661 remained with the USAF until 1964. Presumably scrapped. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

Delivered new to the Colombian Government as HK-189-X in 1955 and flown by several operators as HK-189 between 1959 and 1997 by which time the fuselage was stored at Villavicencio as HK-189-P. Registered in Canada as C-GGBF in December 2002 to Sealand Aviation and rebuilt as a testbed for the Trace Orenda powerplant. Re-registered in 2012 as N600AX to Trace Engines of Midland Texas and first flown there with the new powerplant in May 2012.

On display at the model flying field at Ezpeleta, near Buenos Aires for many years the aircraft was removed in March 2021. The fuselage is apparently being converted for use as a food vending trailer. The former Allegheny Airlines N149A has been in Argentina since 1959.

Delivered to the Bata Shoe Company as OK-CTB in 1937, sold as CF-DTB and then to the RCAF as '7656' between September 1940 and May 1946. Joined the US civil register in July 1946 as N79236 and subsequently flown by several owners. Re registered as N241M in 1963, by 1974 it was flying with a Texas based owner flying as RCAF '7656'. Purchased by its current owner in 2012, after an impressive restoration 'OK-CTB' returned to Europe and is now based at Točná.

Over Okinawa spraying mosquitoes to control malaria and encephalitis. 43-48568 was scrapped in 1946. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

K25 slide scan. Built 1945 as 42-72759 for USAAF, transferred to USN as R5D-1 56531, retired to MASDC 1972. Civilianized as N96454 1975. Central Air Service 1981, stored by 1990. Registered to Maricopa Aircraft 1991. Ferried to Dempsay Farm airstrip, Rantoul, KS for further storage, cancelled 2018.

1/45: TOS USAAF and assigned to Air Technical Service Center, Brookley AAF, Mobile, AL. 1/45 to 10/51: Moved around in storage. 10/51: Converted to TB-25L. 8/53 to 8/54: Hughes Aircraft for conversion to TB-25M. 7/54: TOS RCAF as Mitchell IIIA1. 5/55: TOS USAF. 7/55: Boeing Aircraft, Birmingham, AL. 10/55: 3565th Observer Training Wing, James Connally AFB, TX. 4/56: Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for storage. 8 June 1958: 128th Consolidated Logistics & Maintenance Squadron, Wisconsin ANG, Milwaukee, WI. 3 Mar 1960: SOC. Given to Mitchell Field for display, mounted on a pedestal at the airport entry.