crashed due engine fire 2011 as F-AZZU on May 31 near the airfield at Melun-Villaroche (Seine-et-Marne), France. In the back also a rare thing - a Re 420, originally (and still widely called) Re 4/4 II electric locomotive of Swiss Federal Railway.
This Mitchell operated with 18 Squadron, NEIAF as 'N5-264' from September 1945. Later the aircraft was re-serialled M-464. The Mitchell was handed over to the Air Force Museum in October 1971. The 18 Squadron emblem is below the cockpit.
Mitchell 44-31258 entered service with 18 Squadron, NEIAF as 'N5-264' in September 1945. Later re-serialled M-464, it eventually ended up with the AURI's no. 1 Squadron, again as M-464. The Mitchell came to the Netherlands in May 1971.