27 Jul '44: TOS USAAF as 44-28866 and modified as TB-25J. Used by many units for training and utility transport. Jun-Jul 1955: Converted to TB-25N. 10 Oct '57: SOC. 1/58: Registered N5277V and used by several owners for firefighting. 5/93: Registered N225AJ. 1998: Peddycord Foundation for Aircraft Restoration, Asheboro, NC; restored from 1998 to 2004; making its first flight restored on 30 Oct '04 flying as "Carolina Girl." 8/04: Re-registered as N744CG. 2008: Jerry Shiffer/B-25 Project, Urbana, OH; more work done to the airframe; named "Champaign Gal." 23 Dec '08: Champaign Aviation Museum.

Outside the AA Maintenance Base.

ex G-AOIA of BOAC. Ports of Call is a travel club.

Photographer Paul Tomlin

27 Jul '44: TOS USAAF as 44-28866 and modified as TB-25J. Used by many units for training and utility transport. Jun-Jul 1955: Converted to TB-25N. 10 Oct '57: SOC. 1/58: Registered N5277V and used by several owners for firefighting. 5/93: Registered N225AJ. 1998: Peddycord Foundation for Aircraft Restoration, Asheboro, NC; restored from 1998 to 2004; making its first flight restored on 30 Oct '04 flying as "Carolina Girl." 8/04: Re-registered as N744CG. 2008: Jerry Shiffer/B-25 Project, Urbana, OH; more work done to the airframe; named "Champaign Gal." 23 Dec '08: Champaign Aviation Museum.

27 Jul '44: TOS USAAF as 44-28866 and modified as TB-25J. Used by many units for training and utility transport. Jun-Jul 1955: Converted to TB-25N. 10 Oct '57: SOC. 1/58: Registered N5277V and used by several owners for firefighting. 5/93: Registered N225AJ. 1998: Peddycord Foundation for Aircraft Restoration, Asheboro, NC; restored from 1998 to 2004; making its first flight restored on 30 Oct '04 flying as "Carolina Girl." 8/04: Re-registered as N744CG. 2008: Jerry Shiffer/B-25 Project, Urbana, OH; more work done to the airframe; named "Champaign Gal." 23 Dec '08: Champaign Aviation Museum.

Ended its flying days in 1978 on Sennybridge ranges, Powys, and long since destroyed.

Ended its flying days in 1978 on Sennybridge ranges, Powys, and long since destroyed.

Damaged beyond repair in a landing accident at Middle Wallop on 5 July 1967 and relegated to a ground instruction airframe as 8011M. It has since been scrapped.

Stored at 5MU Kemble from 9 January 1969 and went to 4 SoTT St Athan on 11 May 1971 for ground instruction as 8110M (wrongly painted as 8112M). Dumped in the open at St Athan as scrap by June 1976, then sold and shipped to Canada in late 1976. Registered in the USA as N72497 (still marked as 8112M) in January 1978 and used as a spares source for HR-ITA (c/n 29) at Miami, Florida, and later scrapped.

Government aircraft operated in Lufthansa markings. Carried Joachim von Ribbentrop, the new Nazi ambassador to London.

First flew as G-ARVF in 1963. Delivered to BOAC in 1964. Merged into British Airways then sold to Sheikh Zayed, ruler of Abu Dhabi in 1974. Last flight to Saarbrucken in 1981 and moved to Hermeskeil for preservation.

First flew as G-ARVI in 1963. Delivered to BOAC in 1964. Merged into British Airways then to Gulf Air in 1974. Reregistered as A4O-VI in 1975. Repainted into the Golden Falcon colour scheme by the time this photo was taken. Sold to the RAF as ZD142 in 1978 for conversion to a tanker at Filton. Delivered after coversion to the RAF in 1984. Withdrawn from use at St.Athan in 2001 and scrapped in 2004.

First flew as G-ARVI in 1963. Delivered to BOAC in 1964. Merged into British Airways then to Gulf Air in 1974. Reregistered as A4O-VI in 1975. Sold to the RAF as ZA142 in 1978 for conversion to a tanker at Filton. Delivered after coversion to the RAF in 1984. Withdrawn from use at St.Athan in 2001 and scrapped in 2004.

First flew as G-ARVI in 1963. Delivered to BOAC in 1964. Merged into British Airways then to Gulf Air in 1974. Reregistered as A4O-VI in 1975. Sold to the RAF as ZD142 in 1978 for conversion to a tanker at Filton. Delivered after coversion to the RAF in 1984. Withdrawn from use at St.Athan in 2001 and scrapped in 2004.

First flew as G-ARVI in 1963. Delivered to BOAC in 1964. Merged into British Airways then to Gulf Air in 1974. Reregistered as A4O-VI in 1975. Sold to the RAF as ZD142 in 1978 for conversion to a tanker at Filton. Delivered after coversion to the RAF in 1984. Withdrawn from use at St.Athan in 2001 and scrapped in 2004.

First flew as G-ARVG in 1963. Delivered to BOAC in 1964. Merged into British Airways then to Gulf Air in 1974. Reregistered as A4O-VG in 1975. Sold to the RAF as ZD141 in 1978 for conversion to a tanker at Filton. First flight after conversion in 1982 and delivered to the RAF in 1984. Withdrawn from use at St.Athan in 1999 and scrapped in 2001.