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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:87 FAC
    Construction Number:75-6458
    Last Civil Registration:C-GZAL
    Latest Owner or Location:Daniel W Jones, Lacombe, AB

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    Dates

    Event

    August 1942

    Constructed as a N2S-3 by Boeing.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 05284.

    Transferred to NAS Memphis.

    Transferred to NAS Bunker Hill.

    1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Colombiana with s/n 87.
    Surplus to USN postwar and went to Colombia.

    1956

    To Pan-American Society Corporation, New Orleans, LA.

    1957

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Fuerza Aerea Colombiana.

    By 1963

    To Paul Foshee Dusting Company, Natchitoches, LA with new c/r N9198R.

    1968

    Converted to Ag use.

    9 April 1975

    To Mid Continent Aircraft Corp, Hayti, MO keeping c/r N9198R.

    6 May 1975

    Civil registration, N9198R, cancelled.

    1975

    To unknown owner.
    Exprted to Canada.

    To Zarn Air Ltd with new c/r C-GZAL.

    1978

    Crashed.
    Non-fatal.

    1978


    Photographer: Dan Jones
    Notes: C-GZALs last flight near Stavely, Alberta, 1978. Prop governor came apart just after takeoff and the load would not dump. Pilot survived

    1990

    Recovered.
    Salvaged from junkyard.

    Circa 3 March 1993

    Certificate of airworthiness for C-GZAL (B75N1, ?75 6458) issued.

    3 March 1993

    To Daniel G. Jones, Yellowknife, NT keeping c/r C-GZAL.

    30 January 2007

    Civil registration, C-GZAL, cancelled.

    16 April 2008

    To Beatrice M Jones, Selkirk, MB with new c/r C-GZAL.

    2018


    Photographer: Dan Jones
    Notes: 40 years on - restoration project

    31 October 2019

    To Daniel W Jones, Lacombe, AB keeping c/r C-GZAL.

    Restoration started.
    Long term restoration to fly as USN N2S-3.

    5 January 2021


    Photographer: Daniel Jones
    Notes: Aircraft under long-term restoration to fly.


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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada

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    Terry Fletcher
    Daniel Jones

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