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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:N2S-4 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:27961 USN
    Construction Number:75-3235
    Last Civil Registration:N21967
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-4 sn 27961 USN cn 75-323...
    Latest Owner or Location:Howard M. Thomas, Hernando, MS

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-17 by Boeing.

    1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-25738.
    NTU, For Lend-Lease to Bolivia.

    7 September 1942

    Transported by ground.
    By road to Port of Embarkation, Los Angeles, CA for delivery to Bolivia.

    10 October 1942

    Diverted from Lend-Lease to USN.

    22 October 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 27961 as a N2S-4.

    22 October 1942

    Transferred to Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Dallas, TX.

    August 1948

    To unknown owner with c/r N21967.

    18 August 1948

    Certificate of airworthiness for N21967 (A75N1(PT17), 75-3235) issued.

    20 October 1952

    To Wheeler-Northland Airways Ltd, Saint. Jovite, QC with new c/r CF-EQT.

    From 1953 to 1958

    Operated for the Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm spray program New Brunswick.

    From 1953 to 1958

    Operated as a agricultural sprayer/tanker with fleet #62.

    Circa 1954


    Photographer: Barrie MacLeod

    30 July 1958

    Damaged.
    Substantially damaged during aerial application spraying crops when the pilot failed to maintain directional control during takeoff, ran off the runway into wet, soft ground at an airstrip near Napierville, Quebec.

    3 July 1965


    Photographer: Larry Johnson Collection
    Notes: In St. Jovite Ontario, Canada.

    From 1966 to 1968

    Operated for the Canadian budworm spray program.

    By 1975

    To Evergreen Air Services Ltd, Roxboro, QC keeping c/r CF-EQT.

    August 1975

    Noted in external storage at Fredericton, New Brunswick.

    1980

    To Russel Miller and Norman Clarey, keeping c/r CF-EQT.

    1 December 1989

    Civil registration, CF-EQT, cancelled.

    21 February 1990

    To Phillip E. Dacy DBA, Harvard, IL with new c/r N21967.

    14 September 2004

    To Phillip W. Hart, Arlington, TN keeping c/r N21967.

    10 September 2009


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Galesburg, IL.

    3 August 2010

    To Phillip W. Hart, Lakeland, TN keeping c/r N21967.

    26 October 2021

    To Phillip W. Hart, Searcy, AR keeping c/r N21967.

    10 September 2022


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the annual Galesburg, IL Stearman Fly-In.

    21 September 2022

    To Howard M. Thomas, Hernando, MS keeping c/r N21967.

    September 2024


    Photographer: G.R.Dennis Price
    Notes: At the 2024 National Stearman Fly-In at Galesburg


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