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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:N2S-3 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:07834 USN
    Construction Number:75-7438
    Last Civil Registration:N5123N
    Latest Owner or Location:Linwood E. Oakley, Zebulon, NC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a N2S-3 by Boeing.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 07834 and operated with these markings: 287.

    12 July 1948


    Photographer: Lin Oakley Collection
    Notes: Used with permission from Lin Oakley.

    By 1964

    To Kenneth H. Crisp, Alva, OK with new c/r N5123N.

    14 September 1976

    To Franklin LaSalle Wilcox keeping c/r N5123N.

    1986

    Disassembled.

    16 February 1990

    To Theodore Major, Washington, DC keeping c/r N5123N.

    14 January 1998

    To Linwood E. Oakley, Kenly, NC keeping c/r N5123N.

    14 January 1998


    Photographer: Lin Oakley Collection
    Notes: All loaded up

    5 December 2007

    To Mark Barnes, Knightdale, NC keeping c/r N5123N.

    2 June 2017

    To Linwood E. Oakley, Kenly, NC keeping c/r N5123N.

    15 March 2018

    To Linwood E. Oakley, Zebulon, NC keeping c/r N5123N.
    Note: Just a change of address.

    Restored.

    30 June 2023

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5123N (B75N1, 75-7438) issued.

    15 July 2023

    First post-restoration Flight.
    Since dis-assembly in January 1986.

    15 July 2023


    Photographer: Dale Burbank
    Notes: First Flight since disassembled in Jan 1986
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    Mike Henniger
    Lin OAKLEY
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