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Public Forums => Outdoors => Topic started by: Joe Schmoe on Sep 19, 20, 04:32:18 PM
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For those who might be outside keeping an eye out on the fire. It's headed for the 138/15 interchange, and heading into Phelan.
In a bit of irony, it also has a history of working as a fire bomber: https://b-25history.org/aircraft/4428938.htm
Old picture:
(https://b-25history.org/aircraft/pics/4428938a.jpg)
Current:
(http://www.twinbeech.com/images/B-25%20OLD%20GLORY/Over%20Tahoe%209.JPG)
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N7946C
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She was later rebuilt to an absolutely beautiful, highly polished aluminum bird and renamed "Old Glory"
She was on the USS Essex on it's trip to Pearl Harbor for the V-J Day commemoration.
Old Glory returned on the USS Essex to San Diego, where she fly up to Chino Airport.
She left Chino enroute Stockton where she sadly crash landed in a field near the airport.
Two members of the crew were hurt, thankfully none seriously.
But it will be a while before Old Glory flys again.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/plane-crashes-near-stockton-airport-san-joaquin-county-sheriffs-officials-say/103-de6b52fd-4915-4a73-a6d1-544e55c0b9ae (https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/plane-crashes-near-stockton-airport-san-joaquin-county-sheriffs-officials-say/103-de6b52fd-4915-4a73-a6d1-544e55c0b9ae)