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    Airframe Family: Stearman C Series
    Latest Model:C3B
    Construction Number:221
    Last Civil Registration:N8811
    Latest Owner or Location:Alfred and Lois Kelch Aviation Museum Inc, Brodhead, WI

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    Dates

    Event

    1929

    Constructed as a C3B.
    STEARMAN AIRCRAFT C3-B 221

    Placed on display with Kelch Aviation Museum, Brodhead Airport (C37), Brodhead, WI.
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    1 November 1994

    To Alfred H. Kelch, Mequon, WI with new c/r N8811.

    22 August 1997

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8811 (C3-B, 221) issued.

    1 July 2005

    To Lois Kelch, Frostproof, FL keeping c/r N8811.

    11 June 2012

    To Alfred and Lois Kelch Aviation Museum Inc, Cornelius, NC keeping c/r N8811.

    8 January 2015

    To Alfred and Lois Kelch Aviation Museum Inc, Brodhead, WI keeping c/r N8811.

    9 June 2016


    Photographer: G.R.Dennis Price
    Notes: At the MAAC Grassroots Fly-In 2016, at Brodhead, WI

    August 2016

    First flight in 19 years.


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