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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:42-17397 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-5560
    Last Civil Registration:G-BSWC
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-13D sn 42-17397 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:David A Jack, Oxford, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-13D by Boeing.

    18 May 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-17397.
    The delivery date is provided.

    October 1944

    Transferred to 3041 Base Unit, Hemet Field, CA.

    December 1944

    Transferred to 3043 Base Unit, Lancaster Field, CA.

    July 1945

    Transferred to 3008 Base Unit, Minter Field, CA.

    December 1945

    Transferred to 26622 Base Unit, Mather Field, CA.

    July 1946

    Assigned to Hill Field for storage.

    25 July 1949

    To Elynor Rudnick, Bakersfield Park, CA.

    26 September 1950

    To Transocean Airlines, Municipal Airport, Oakland, CA with new c/r N5021V.

    1978

    To Howard and Mary Martin, CA keeping c/r N5021V.

    1980

    To Jack, Allwardt CA with new c/r N17112 {1} (PT-13D, 755560).

    1 November 1990

    Civil registration, N17112 {1}, cancelled.

    16 November 1990

    To Ronald John Lancaster with new c/r G-BSWC.

    13 May 1994

    To Robert Roland White keeping c/r G-BSWC.

    20 April 2001

    To Richard John Thwaites keeping c/r G-BSWC.
    Based at the Gloucestershire (Staverton) Airport, UK.

    Markings Applied: 112
    Painted in USAAC colours with Serial 112.

    8 May 2003

    To Richard Thwaites Aviation Ltd, Apperley, Gloucester keeping c/r G-BSWC.

    9 May 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2010 Kemble Great Vintage Flying Weekend

    2017

    To David A Jack, Oxford, England keeping c/r G-BSWC.

    By 1 September 2020


    Photographer: David Jack

    17 December 2023

    Noted hangared at Enstone Airfield, Oxfordshire.
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     Terry Fletcher
    David Jack
    David Jack
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