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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:PT-17 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:40-1788 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-0345
    Last Civil Registration:N55575
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-17 sn 40-1788 USAAF cn 75...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kenneth L. Bemis Trustee, Brawley, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-17 by Boeing.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 40-1788.

    Transferred to 63rd Army Air Forces Contract Pilot School, Douglas, GA.

    Markings Applied: 3

    5 August 1965

    Certificate of airworthiness for N55575 (A75N1(PT17), 75-1824) issued.

    By 1969

    To John W. Owen, Hialeah, FL with new c/r N55575.

    July 1971

    To George L. Hart Homestead, FL keeping c/r N55575.


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: I shot this in X51 in the late 1960s.

    By January 1974

    To Rick Neubauer/Richards Field Inc, Homestead, FL keeping c/r N55575.

    January 1975

    To Phillip L. Loftin, Greensboro, NC keeping c/r N55575.

    1978


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Homestead General Aviation Airport (Homestead, FL, USA)


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Richards Field South FL in the early 1970s.

    Assigned civil registration: N62850 {2}
    Editor note: At some point this airframe adopted the identification of c/n 75-1824. The original 75-1824 had crashed in 1969 and the registration N62850 was cancelled in 1970. It is assumed that all that remained of the airframe was the paperwork, but this is not confirmed. It is also assumed the ID was then adopted by this airframe but why is not clear, and neither confirmed.


    Photographer: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

    10 July 1984

    To Glenn W. Holland, Pelion, SC with new c/r N55575.

    16 February 2012

    To Kenneth L. Bemis Trustee, Brawley, CA keeping c/r N55575.

    21 November 2017

    Civil registration, N62850 {2}, cancelled.

    21 April 2023

    To Kenneth L. Bemis Trustee, Brawley, CA keeping c/r N55575.
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