A piece of history has landed in Pocatello, and the public can take a tour and even a flight. City staff and elected leaders ...

A fog-blind B-25 Mitchell bomber, groping its way southward across Manhattan to Newark Airport, crashed into the 79th floor of the 1,250-foot Empire State Building at 9:52 A.M. yesterday, ...

The B-25 was first designed in 1940 and was intended to be the United States’ medium bomber workhorse. On paper, the B-25 was not particularly spectacular: it had two engines, a pencil-like ...

The B-25 first flew in 1940 and entered service a year later, just as the United States was fully entering the Second World War. The mid-wing monoplane would go on to be a real workhorse of the US ...

The B-25, a medium-range bomber, is most famous for its role in the daring Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942. In that attack, 16 of them took off in foul weather from the pitching deck of an ...

A U.S. Army Air Force B-25 bomber, attempting to maneuver over New York City in a heavy fog, flew into the side of the Empire State Building on this date 75 years ago. All three aboard the plane ...

Seventy years ago Tuesday, an Army B-25 bomber struck the 78th and 79th floors of the Empire State Building, killing 14 people. Remarkable footage shot after the crash is among half a million Briti… ...

There's now a permanent memorial dedicated to the five crew members who lost their lives in the only B-25 test flight crash in Kansas City. More than 6,000 B-25 Mitchell Bombers were built at the ...

On April 26, 1942, the 13th B-25 bomber to come off the line at the Fairfax assembly plant was ready for its test flight. But almost immediately, something went wrong.

Text and images adapted with permission from Kansas City B-25 Factory, by John Fredrickson and John Roper. Available from the publisher online, or by calling 888-313-2665.

B-25 bombers were aircraft first made and flown in World War II. A plant in Fairfax, Kansas, produced the majority of these aircraft. “Two-thirds of the B-25s, which is a World War II medium ...