Warbird Restorations
How America’s Youth is Rebuilding a WWII B-25 Bomber
A Michigan-based nonprofit restoring a salvaged B-25 has a long history of getting young people started on their aviation journeys. […]
B-25 “Sandbar Mitchell”
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Warbirds of Glory Museum – Raising Funds to Rescue a Link Trainer
As most readers will know, the Warbirds of Glory Museum is in the process of restoring B-25J Mitchell 44-30733, lovingly referred to as the Sandbar Mitchell due to the airframe having spent many years marooned on a […]
Warbird Restorations
Warbirds of Glory Museum Move & Sandbar Mitchell Update
In mid-October, the Warbirds of Glory Museum moved in to their new premises at Oakland Southwest Airport near New Hudson, Michigan. As most readers will be well aware, this museum is responsible for rescuing the battered remains […]
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Sandbar Mitchell – Spring 2020 Restoration Update
It’s been a while since our last report on the Warbirds of Glory Museum in Brighton, Michigan. As readers will recall, museum volunteers recovered the mortal remains of North American B-25J Mitchell 44-30733 from her longtime […]
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Warbirds of Glory – Sandbar Mitchell Progress & The Kittyhawk Academy
It has been some time since we have carried an update on progress with Warbirds Of Glory’s North American B-25J Mitchell serial 44-30733. Better known as The Sandbar Mitchell, most readers will remember when her […]
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Sandbar Mitchell – Restoration Update – October, 2015
WarbirdsNews has been following progress at the Warbirds of Glory Museum in restoring the B-25J known as The Sandbar Mitchell since her initial recovery from the Alaskan wilderness. These guys are doing an amazing job […]
Aviation Museum News
The Sandbar Mitchell – Fundraiser Report & Nome Recovery
Edited from a story by Mike Lambert, WarbirdsNews man on the scene “It’s not how smart you are, it’s what you do with it.” -Wendy Zielem For the past two years, WarbirdsNews has been […]
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B-25 Sandbar Mitchell – November / December 2014 Update
80 days of work on a B-25 into four minutes! The Sandbar Mitchell online store is always adding new items to it’s inventory, so be sure to check it out HERE to see what’s available. WarbirdsNews will […]
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B-25 Sandbar Mitchell – September / October 2014 Update
The Sandbar Mitchell restoration team at the Warbirds of Glory Museum has been hard at work, as always, over the past two months. After carefully drilling out several thousand rivets, they have fully de-skinned the […]
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B-25 Sandbar Mitchell – August, 2014 Update
While some of this news has been covered in an earlier piece, WarbirdsNews felt our readers would enjoy a recap of what the Sandbar Mitchell restoration team has accomplished this past August. Here is a […]