Tue, Oct 26, 2010
B-25 "Skunkie" Will Be Displayed In Columbia, SC
A group formed specifically for the purpose hopes to restore and
put on display a B-25 which was pulled from a lake in South
Carolina in 1983.
B-25 File Photo
"Skunkie" went down on a training mission, ironically on D-Day,
in Lake Greenwood in South Carolina, according to the
Aircraft Resource Center . The airplane was reportedly in very
bad shape when it broke the surface of the water in 1983, but it
was partially restored in 1992 and has been displayed at such
events as the 50th anniversary of Doolittle's Raid. The Raiders
volunteered for their historic 1942 mission at Columbia Air
Base.
Now, according to The State in South Carolina, the S.C.
Historic Aviation Foundation has been formed to raise money to buy
and restore "Skunkie," as well as to found a museum dedicated to
historic aircraft like the B-25. The plane is currently owned by
the Celebrate Freedom Foundation, and the terms of the purchase
deal have not yet been revealed.
The plane's current owners had intended to have it displayed at
the State Museum, but those plans fell through. It had been stored
in the Curtiss-Wright hangar at Owens Field Municipal Airport (6K2)
in Columbia, but the paper reports that while that is one of the
possible sites for the new museum, it is in disrepair as well. The
last several years it has been sitting on the tarmac at
Hamilton-Owens (KCUB) airport in Columbia exposed to the
elements.
B-25 File Photo
C. Cantzon Foster of the S.C. Historic Aviation Foundation said
the organization was founded specifically to preserve "Skunkie" for
the people of South Carolina.
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