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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:55768 USN
    Construction Number:75-5005
    Last Civil Registration:N66144
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-4 sn 55768 USN cn 75-500...
    Latest Owner or Location:South Carolina Aviation Museum Ltd, Wilmington, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-13D by Boeing.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-16842.
    NTU, order cancelled, redesignated N2S-4.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 60883 as a N2S-4.

    1943

    New serial number assigned: USN BuNo 55768

    1963

    To Pipes Aero Services, Bastrop, LA with new c/r N66144.

    14 October 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N66144 (E75, 75-5005) issued.

    By 1971

    To Gueydan Flying Company, Gueydan, LA keeping c/r N66144.

    15 January 1972

    To Thomas O. Young, Battle Ground, WA keeping c/r N66144.

    15 September 1972

    Attended the first National Stearman Fly-In at Galesburg, Illinois.

    September 1974


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Galesburg, IL with large registration marks on the fuselage.

    15 July 1998

    To Thomas O. Young, Lake Oswego, OR keeping c/r N66144.

    25 August 2007

    To Thomas O. Young, Battle Ground, WA keeping c/r N66144.

    Circa 1 January 2014

    To Thomas O. Young, Lake Oswego, OR keeping c/r N66144.

    8 January 2015

    To South Carolina Aviation Museum Ltd, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N66144.

    September 2016


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Galesburg Municipal

    4 September 2019


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Galesburg, IL.

    6 September 2019


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Galesburg, IL Stearman Fly In

    11 January 2021

    To South Carolina Aviation Museum Ltd, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N66144.

    24 June 2022


    Photographer: Bob Bennett
    Notes: In Mt.Vernon, OH at the Wyncoop Airport.

    7 September 2023


    Photographer: G.R.Dennis Price
    Notes: National Stearman Fly-out, Gen-Airpark [3G8], Geneseo, IL


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