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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:A75N1 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:41-8001 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-1560
    Last Civil Registration:VH-EEY
    Compressed ID:Boeing A75N1 sn 41-8001 USAAF cn 75...
    Latest Owner or Location:Southern Corporate Air Charter Pty. Ltd, Beaconsfield, NSW/Benjamin Merkenhof

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A75N1 by Boeing.

    Circa 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-8001.

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

    Markings Applied: #57

    A long period of the airframes history is unclear until 2007.

    2007

    Airframe arrived in Australia as a wreck -Restoration started at Jandakot, Perth WA.

    19 August 2008

    To Robert Poynton, Canning Bridge, WA with new c/r VH-RPS.

    2 March 2010

    To Benjamin Merkenhof, Mayfield, NSW with new c/r VH-EEY.
    Operated with markings: 996 US NAVY

    2 December 2010

    Civil registration, VH-RPS, cancelled.

    11 April 2011


    Photographer: Nick Dean
    Notes: 2011 Photo taken at Echula airfield, Victoria, Australia. Displayed with written permission from Nick Dean

    29 March 2014


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2014 photo at Temora, NSW - aircraft has references to 41-7996 on fuselage

    29 March 2014


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2014 photo at Temora, New South Wales, Australia

    1 November 2018

    To Southern Corporate Air Charter Pty. Ltd, Beaconsfield, NSW/Benjamin Merkenhof keeping c/r VH-EEY.
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    Australian Government, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
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     Terry Fletcher
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