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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:PT-17A Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:41-8138 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-1697
    Last Civil Registration:N9HY
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-17A sn 41-8138 USAAF cn 7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Larry Jacobi, Noblesville, IN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-17A by Boeing.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-8138.

    By 1958

    To Fred Frazier, Leland, MS with new c/r N55322.

    By 1967

    To Hanscom Air Service, Lincoln, PA with new c/r N422S.

    26 September 1967

    Certificate of airworthiness for N422S (A75N1(PT17), 75-1697) issued.

    By 1975

    To Hanscom Air Service, Nashua, NH keeping c/r N422S.

    By 1978

    To Jakob S. Kamborian, Nashua, NH keeping c/r N422S.

    25 June 1991

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at the Limington Harmon Airport (63B) Limington, ME, United States while taxiing. The damage was substantial. The pilot had just landed and was making a turn on the runway. The left wheel went off the paved surface and became stuck in sand. The pilot said, he applied too much power and struck trees with lower wings...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    20 September 1991

    To Harvey A. Shulman, New Smyrna Beach, FL with new c/r N9HY.

    Circa March 1998


    Photographer: Ray Fow
    Notes: This a/c became N9HY.

    17 February 1999

    To Harvey A. Shulman, New Smyrna Beach, FL keeping c/r N9HY.

    19 May 2005

    To Larry Jacobi, Noblesville, IN keeping c/r N9HY.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mark Pasqualino
    Notes: At Galesburg Municipal

    5 September 2013


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: Registered N9HY in Galesburg, IL.

    17 August 2020

    To Larry Jacobi, Noblesville, IN keeping c/r N9HY.

    7 September 2023


    Photographer: G.R.Dennis Price
    Notes: National Stearman Fly-out, Gen-Airpark [3G8], Geneseo, IL. September 7, 2023
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