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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:PT-13D Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:42-16892 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-5055
    Last Civil Registration:N808RB
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-13D sn 42-16892 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Schwans Consumer Brands Inc, Marshall, MN

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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 42-16892.

    Transferred to 9th AAF Flying Training Detachment (Primary), Gibbs Field, Fort Stockton, TX.

    By 1944

    Transferred to 16th AAF Flying Training Detachment, Wickenburg, AZ.

    31 January 1944

    Damaged.
    Ground collision while taxiing, Echeverria Field, Wickenburg, AZ, pilot Russell G. White.

    By May 1945

    Transferred to 2160th Base Unit, Lakeland AAF, FL.

    30 May 1945

    Damaged.
    Landing accident at Lakeland AAF, pilot Joseph J. Dipersia.

    From Circa 1956 to After 1971

    To Atwood Aviation Inc, Salinas, CA with new c/r N68975.

    Circa 1956


    Photographer: William Larkins
    Notes: In Bakersfield, CA.

    19 October 1989

    Certificate of airworthiness for N68975 (PT-13D, 75-5055) issued.

    1 November 1989

    To James E. Keller, Louisville, OH keeping c/r N68975.

    7 September 1990


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Galesburg, IL.

    18 March 2003

    To Schwans Aerial Marketing Llc, Marshall, MN with new c/r N808RB.

    1 October 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed from the control tower at Cedar Rapids, IA

    1 October 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed from the control tower at Cedar Rapids, IA

    9 November 2007


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Blue Angels Homecoming, NAS Pensacola FL

    24 November 2008

    To Travelaire Service Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N808RB.

    7 September 2011

    To James E. Keller, Canton, OH keeping c/r N808RB.

    13 April 2012

    To Kelly James Cawthorne, Harrisburg, SD keeping c/r N808RB.

    5 February 2014

    To Schwans Aerial Marketing Llc, Marshall, MN keeping c/r N808RB.

    29 August 2019

    To Schwans Consumer Brands Inc, Marshall, MN keeping c/r N808RB.
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