CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 6, 1996 | DAVID REYES, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Walter Kurilchyk didn't know what he got himself into when an aviation hobby turned into an obsessive search for the last remaining B-25 airplane from the late Gen. Jimmy Doolittle's fabled 1942 bombing raid on Tokyo. "It started in about 1980," Kurilchyk recalled. "It was just a hobby then."