Dates

Event

Constructed as a N2S-3 by Boeing.

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 07188.

By 1955

To Bradley Air Services, Carp, ON with new c/r CF-HKZ.
Operated with markings: 70

1956

Photographer: Forest Protection
Notes: Bradley Stearman #70 CF-HKZ at Dunphy airstrip, New Brunswick, 1956.

30 May 1957

Involved in an incident.
At the Cartierville Airport, Quebec, while ferrying to New Brunswick for the budworm spray. CF-HKZ collided with a stationary CF-JLS after the pilot of HKZ had started the engine by the propeller. Damage was moderate to both aircraft: propeller, engine, engine mount and top wing.

1958

To Skyway Air Services, Langley, BC keeping c/r CF-HKZ.
Markings added: 80

Photographer: William T Larkins

2 July 1959

Destroyed in a crash.
Location - 1.5 miles south of Genelle, British Columbia. Witnesses observed that the aircraft, while making a turn to commence the first spray, struck a power line, caught fire and crashed, killing pilot R.E. Elmore and destroying the aircraft. The aircraft continued to burn as it crashed through the second set of power lines. It came to rest at the base of a power pole, where it exploded. Pilot Elmore had 1300 hours experience, of which 810 had been with Stearmans, with 57.5 hours within the 90 days prior to the accident.