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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:42-16238 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-4401
    Last Civil Registration:N49650
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-17 sn 42-16238 USAAF cn 7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Straight Arrow Llc, Chicago, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-17 by Boeing.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-16238.

    From By 1954 to 1967

    To Delta Air Lines-Agricultural Division with new c/r N49650.
    Operated with markings: 76

    By 1971

    To Dothan Leasing and Rental Co Inc, Wheelless Airport, AL keeping c/r N49650.

    To Abel Hera keeping c/r N49650.


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: I shot this in X51 after Abel Hera bought two ex-Delta dusters, this one and N4937N. Abel was a pilot with Delta and flew both of these a/c when he was flying for them. He sold N4937N before restoring it but his son Abel Hera Jr. restored N49650.

    Restoration completed.
    By Abel Hera Jnr.


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: I shot this in IMM after Abel Hera Jr. restored it.

    By 1978

    To David L. Trout, Barrington, IL keeping c/r N49650.

    26 September 1986

    To John K. McVeity, Sterling Heights, MI keeping c/r N49650.

    21 January 1998

    To John K. McVeity, Sterling Heights, MI keeping c/r N49650.

    15 January 2003

    To John P. Richardson, Springfield, IL keeping c/r N49650.

    8 July 2009

    To unknown owner with c/r N49650.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Wheaton, IL.

    30 November 2009

    To Straight Arrow Llc, Chicago, IL keeping c/r N49650.

    24 June 2012


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Big Foot Airport

    12 August 2014

    To Straight Arrow Llc, Chicago, IL keeping c/r N49650.

    26 March 2018

    Civil registration, N49650, cancelled.

    29 July 2019

    To Straight Arrow Llc, Chicago, IL with new c/r N49650.

    5 November 2022

    Civil registration, N49650, cancelled.


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