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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:42-17698 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-5861
    Last Civil Registration:N2533
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-13D sn 42-17698 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lyon Air Museum, John Wayne International Airport (Orange County Airport), Santa Ana, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-13D by Boeing.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-17698.

    By 1978

    To John Drake, Roseville, CA with new c/r N250JD.

    7 November 1989

    To Stephen A. Berkman, Great Falls, VI keeping c/r N250JD.

    Circa 2002

    To Stephen A. Berkman, Leesburg, VA with new c/r N2533.
    Operated with markings: 33

    5 August 2002

    Certificate of airworthiness for N2533 (E75, 42-17698) issued.

    14 October 2006


    Photographer: Chris England
    Notes: At Culpeper Regional Airport

    28 March 2014

    To Patricia H. Noyes, Huntington Beach, CA keeping c/r N2533.

    2021

    To Lyon Air Museum, John Wayne International Airport (Orange County Airport), Santa Ana, CA.
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    28 July 2021

    To unknown owner with c/r N2533.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Santa Ana, CA.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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