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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:N2S-1 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:3371 USN
    Construction Number:75-1148
    Last Civil Registration:N54087
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-1 sn 3371 USN cn 75-1148...
    Latest Owner or Location:Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc Trustee, Bergh Apton NFLK

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a N2S-1 by Boeing.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 3371.

    January 1964

    To M and M Air Services, Beaumont, TX with new c/r N54087.

    By July 1971

    To George F. Mitchell Jr., Beaumont, TX keeping c/r N54087.

    To Ellington Field, Houston, TX.
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    Markings Applied: 349

    6 April 1987

    Certificate of airworthiness for N54087 (E75, 75-1148) issued.

    25 July 1988

    To O Neal James Anderson Jr, Houston, TX keeping c/r N54087.

    10 February 1997

    To O Neal James Anderson Jr, Houston, TX keeping c/r N54087.

    20 June 2007

    To History Flight Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N54087.

    August 2007


    Photographer: My brother Mason Keith
    Notes: DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport Illinois

    Based at History Flight, The Florida Keys Marathon Airport (MTH), Marathon, FL.
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    Markings Applied: 349

    26 March 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Port Charlotte, FL.

    24 September 2011

    Crashed.
    The accident occurred at Ellington Field (EFD) Houston, TX, United States while taxiing. The damage was substantial. After landing, the pilot was cleared to taxi his tailwheel-equipped airplane to the ramp and was aware that another airplane would be in front of him as he taxied. As he crossed over an active runway onto the taxiway, he steered straight ahead and did not perform any s-turns to maintain visual contact of the airplane ahead of him...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    28 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2012 Sun N Fun

    4 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Deland Airport, Florida

    18 April 2018

    Civil registration, N54087, cancelled.

    11 October 2019

    To International Air Services Inc Trustee, Carson City, NV with new c/r N54087.

    21 January 2022

    To Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc Trustee, Bungay Suffolk keeping c/r N54087.

    To Duran de Villiers keeping c/r N54087.
    And now bsed in South Africa.

    7 July 2023

    To Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc Trustee, Bergh Apton NFLK keeping c/r N54087.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Transportation Safety Board
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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