List of surviving North American B-25 Mitchells


There are more than one hundred surviving North American B-25 Mitchells scattered over the world, mainly in the United States. Most of them are on static display in museums, but about 45 are still airworthy.
A significant number of these were brought together for Catch-22, a 1970 war film adapted from the book of the same name by Joseph Heller. When Catch-22 began preliminary production, Paramount hired the Tallmantz Aviation organization to obtain available B-25s. Tallmantz president, Frank G. Tallman ended up finding war-surplus aircraft, and eventually gathered not only pilots to fly the aircraft but also a ground support crew to maintain the fleet.
On 18 April 2010, 17 airworthy B-25s took off from the airfield behind the National Museum of the United States Air Force and flew over in formation to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid.

Surviving aircraft

Argentina

;Under restoration
;;B-25J
  • 44-31173 – under restoration to flightworthiness by Gustavo M. Passano and his team.

Australia

;On display
;;B-25D
;Under restoration or in storage
;;B-25C
;;B-25J

Austria

;Airworthy
;;B-25J

Belgium

;Under restoration
;;B-25J
  • 44-30925 – under restoration to static display in WWII Stock condition by .

Brazil

;On display
;;B-25J

Canada

;Airworthy
;;B-25J
;On display
;;B-25J
;In Storage
;;B-25J

Ecuador

;On display
;;B-25J
  • 44-86866 – Museo Aeronautico de la FAE Ecuadorian, Quito Air Force Base, partially restored and repainted in the famous "Apache Princess livery"

France

;Crashed in 2011. Damaged beyond economical repair.
;;B-25J
  • 45-8811 Russell's Raiders – at the Société de Développement et de Promotion de l'Aviation in La Ferté-Alais.

Indonesia

;On display
;;B-25J

Mexico

;On display
;;B-25J
;Under Restoration
;;B-25J

Netherlands

;Airworthy
;;B-25J
  • 44-29507 Sarinah.
;On display
;;B-25D
;;B-25J

Papua New Guinea

;On display
;;B-25C

Russia

;On display
;;B-25D

Spain

;On display
;;B-25J

United Kingdom

;On display
;;B-25J
;Under restoration
;;B-25J

United States

;Airworthy
;;B-25
;;B-25D
;;B-25H
;;B-25J
;;PBJ-1J
;On display
;;B-25C
;;B-25D
;;B-25H
;;B-25J
;Under restoration or in storage
;;B-25B
;;B-25C
;;B-25J
;;TB-25K
  • 44-30010 At Fargo Air Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, actively being restored by volunteers for display. Was initially a B-25J-25-NC on November 27, 1944. After serving at multiple air bases, it was converted to a TB-25K Radar Trainer on November 30, 1951. It was used as a trainer until it was retired in December of 1957. In 1958 it was purchased and moved to Rockdale, Texas for 25 years, until it was purchased by Gerry Beck in 1983. It remained in his personal hangar until 2014, when it was moved to the Fargo Air Museum.
;;TB-25N

Venezuela

;On display
;;B-25J
  • 43-28096 – Museo Aeronautico FAV in Maracay Air Force Base.
  • 44-30631 – Teniente Vicente Landaeta Gil AB in Barquisimeto.