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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:N2S-4 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:27960 USN
    Construction Number:75-3234
    Last Civil Registration:YV-E-DPB
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-4 sn 27960 USN cn 75-323...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hall Aviation Company Incorporated, Homestead, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a PT-17 by Boeing.

    Was allocated s/n 41-25737 {1} with the United States Army Signal Corps but was not taken up.
    Painted in Army colors, but delivered to the US Navy with Navy serial 27960 on the tail.

    June 1942

    Redesignated as N2S-4.
    The first N2S-4 aircraft.

    June 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 27960.

    1 July 1942


    Photographer: Larry Johnson Collection
    Notes: The first of 577 N2S-4 Stearmans delivered to the U.S. Navy. Diverted from the USAAC for the Navy.

    2 July 1942


    Photographer: Larry Johnson Collection
    Notes: This a/c was painted in USAAC colors but went to the Navy and they added their BuNo (27960) on the vertical tail.

    2 July 1942


    Photographer: Larry Johnson Collection

    2 July 1942


    Photographer: Larry Johnson Collection

    27 October 1949

    To Hall Aviation Company Incorporated, Homestead, FL with new c/r N55392.

    24 June 1954

    Civil registration, N55392, cancelled.

    To unknown owner with c/r YV-E-DPB.


    Photographer: Bob Bennett Collection
    Notes: When with Hall Dusting in Homestead, FL in the early 1950s.
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