And, while i'm at it, some WW2:
Time to share, I have used
US Military Aircraft Serial Numbers ? Joe Baugher?s Website for many years when I need or want to look up an old warbird. So, when you see a random picture like these or an old movie or visit a museum you can sometimes find out the history of the plane.
For the WWII aircraft especially, what happened to it?s sister planes built in the same batch.
Production batch:
42-32383/32532 North American B-25C-15 Mitchell
Aircraft featured in the picture above:
32511 to NEIAF as N5-149
Sister aircraft lost in conflict:
32503 converted to B-25G. With 321st BG, 447th BS shot down by AAA and ditched 8 mi N of Pizzo, Italy Aug 13, 1943. MACR 409.The MACR lists this as 42-42503.
MACR: Missing Aircraft Crew Report
SOC: Struck Off Charge (Scrapped after the war.)
NEIAF: Netherlands East Indies Air Force (East Indies = Indonesia & other former Dutch colonies)
Production batch:
44-8801/8900 Lockheed/Vega B-17G-85-VE Fortress
Aircraft featured in picture above:
8846 went in 1947 to 49th RS (later 7499th Support Sqn in West Germany) and used for ELINT missions along East German border and down Berlin corridors. To Ogden Air Material Area, Hill AFB, UT Feb 1953. SOC late 1954, and sold to Institut Geographique National of France Dec 1954 as F-BGSP. WFU in 1959 and stored. Transferred May 1985 to Fortress Toujours Volante and e-registered as F-AZDX and is still flying. Whilst with the IGN, spent some time in South Africa as ZS-DXM Departed Orly Oct 24, 2006 for new home at Saint-Yan