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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:41-0898 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-0658
    Last Civil Registration:D-EQXL
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-17 sn 41-0898 USAAF cn 75...
    Latest Owner or Location:Quax -Verein zur Foerderung von historischem Fluggeraet e.V., Paderborn Lippstadt Airport, Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1941

    Constructed as a PT-17 by Boeing.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-0898.

    July 1971

    To Herbert Woolley, Wasco, CA with new c/r N56457.

    14 April 1992

    To Timothy A. Kenealey, Tehachapi, CA keeping c/r N56457.

    14 March 1996

    Certificate of airworthiness for N56457 (A75N1(PT17), 75-658) issued.

    4 September 1996


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: Shot in GBG.

    8 March 1999

    To Tehachapi Flyers Llc, Tehachapi, CA keeping c/r N56457.

    13 July 2007

    To Western Aviation Maintenance Inc, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N56457.

    23 January 2012

    Civil registration, N56457, cancelled.
    Exported to Germany.

    To Eberhard Kolzer with new c/r D-EQXL.
    Operated with markings: 787
    And is based, Blumberg, Germany.

    Based at Quax-Verein zur Foerderung von historischem Fluggeraet E. V., Paderborn Lippstadt Airport, Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia.
    Operated with markings: 4317, 787
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    28 June 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At Phantom Pharewell Photo-shoot Wittmundhafen AB Germany 2013. Now registered as D-EQXL with USN N2S-3 C/s and markings 4317/787

    2 June 2022


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Bienenfarm SuF 2022
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