Unprecedented numbers of aircraft were built during World War II. The US was one of the largest manufacturers.<\/p>\n
One of the most remembered models of that time was the North American B-25 Mitchell<\/strong>, a medium bomber that became famous for being the first American plane to bomb Japan<\/strong> during the famous Doolittle raid on April 18, 1942. 9,816 B-25s were built.<\/strong> This bomber entered service in 1941 and continued to fly with military operators until 1979.<\/p>\n Compared to other models, quite a few B-25s survive today. There are 45 in flight status<\/strong>, mostly in the United States. One of the most recent to fly again is a TB-25J Mitchell trainer, 44-86797, built in 1945 and served in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) <\/strong>, passing to the United States Air Force upon its creation in 1947 and being stored in the famous Davis Monthan AFB aircraft graveyard<\/a>, in Arizona, in 1957. The plane passed into private hands in 1959 , receiving the civil license plate N3438G. It changed hands for decades and in 1993 it was decorated with a US Navy plane, 486797<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Finally, in the first decade of this millennium, the plane ended up on the ground at the Lauridsen Aviation Museum in Buckeye, Arizona.<\/strong> It spent 15 years in the desert without flying and in 2019 its civil registration was cancelled. It was finally restored by <\/strong>ATW Aviation<\/a> in Arizona and has finally been able to see it fly again, as Czoom51<\/a> shows us in this magnificent quality video 4K (turn up the volume, the sound of those radial engines is pure poetry):<\/p>\n
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