page_title: List of surviving North American B-25 Mitchells
section_title: B-25 survivors
hierarchical_section_title: List of surviving North American B-25 Mitchells / B-25 survivors
caption_attribution_description: English: North American B-25 Mitchell during International Air Show Góraszka 2007 Français&#160;: Un avion North American B-25 Mitchell. Photo prise durant le meeting aérien international de Góraszka (Pologne) en 2007. Polski: North American B-25 Mitchell podczas Międzynarodowego Pikniku Lotniczego Góraszka 2007
context_page_description: 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. Four of the surviving members of the Raid were in attendance for the reunion; Cole, Griffin, Hite, and Thatcher, although Hite departed before the flyover. Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley; Commander of Air Force Material Command General Donald J.
caption: B-25J 45-8811 Russell's Raiders at the 2007 International Air Picnic in Góraszka, Poland
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