Designed in the mid 1980's by aircraft design legend Burt Rutan, the Long-EZ has become the most popular "Plans Built" aircraft in existence. The LongEZ is a refinement of Burt's two earlier designs, the VariViggen and the Vari-EZ. These refinements make the Long EZ a comfortable long distance, high altitude, cross country flying machine.
S/n 43-410, c/n 98-21107, civil registration: N5548N, model: B-25H, name: Barbie III, recovered from farm in Plainsfield, IL circa 1981. Restored with gun nose (w. 75mm cannon). First flight May 19, 1992, Rockford, IL. Flown as 34380/Barbie III - Warbirds Unlimited Foundation Inc.
Aircraft crashed for unknown reasons on 08.03.2011 - and was the subject of a search after it failed to arrive at it's destination. Aircraft was located 180 miles off course, in Shoshone Basin about one mile north of the Idaho/Nevada border next day. Pilot/owner Danny Sumers was a high time warbird pilot, unfortunatelly died.
