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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:42-16527 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-4690
    Last Civil Registration:N55809
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-17 sn 42-16527 USAAF cn 7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Patrick M. Brady, Saint Charles, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-17 by Boeing.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-16527.

    1943

    Transferred to 61st Army Air Force Flying Detachment, Contract Pilot School, Avon Park, FL.

    23 July 1943

    Damaged.
    Landing accident with ground loop at Avon Park Bombing Range, pilot Francis P. Fletcher.

    By 8 August 1943

    Transferred to 318th AAF Flying Training Detachment (Primary), 31st Flying Training Wing, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, TX.
    WASP training plane.

    8 August 1943

    Damaged.
    Accident at Avenger Field, pilot Valentine Kiliszewski.

    By 19 December 1962

    To unknown owner with c/r N55809 (A75N1(PT17), 75-4690).

    19 December 1962

    Certificate of airworthiness for N55809 (A75N1(PT17), 75-4690) issued.

    11 September 1976


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Galesburg, IL.

    8 June 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Aurora, IL

    25 August 1997

    To Halm Aviation Inc, Oak Lawn, IL keeping c/r N55809.

    9 August 2009


    Photographer: David Miller
    Notes: 2009 Mendota Fly-In

    2 September 2010

    To unknown owner.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Naperville, IL.

    15 June 2011

    To Casual Air Llc, Naperville, IL keeping c/r N55809.


    Photographer: Ron Kubiak

    1 January 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for N55809 (A75N1(PT17), 75-4690) issued.

    14 January 2020

    To Casual Air Llc, Naperville, IL keeping c/r N55809.

    24 September 2020

    To Patrick M. Brady, Saint Charles, IL keeping c/r N55809.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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