6 AH September 2019
MOVIE MITCHELL
The EAA’s North American
B-25H Berlin Express takes to
the air following a nearly 4½-
year restoration. Inset: Berlin
Express appeared in the
1970 feature film Catch-22.T
he Experimental
Aircraft Association
recently completed
the full restoration
of a North American
B-25H Mitchell
medium bomber, one of
only four H models in exis-
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in the United States. Since
this airplane, at the time
owned by movie stunt pilot
Frank Tallman, appeared in
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Joseph Heller novel Catch-22,
the EAA repainted the air-
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The EAA bomber is also
a bit of a mutt because it no
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