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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:N2S-3 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:38355 USN
    Construction Number:75-7976
    Last Civil Registration:N68251
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-3 sn 38355 USN cn 75-797...
    Latest Owner or Location:Trinkle and Boys, Tracy, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a N2S-3 by Boeing.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 38355.

    4 April 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR68251 (A75N1(PT17), 75-7976) issued.

    From By March 1963 to 2004

    To Trinkle and Boys, Tracy, CA with new c/r N68251.


    Photographer: Unknown


    Photographer: David Stein
    Notes: Sulphur Dust on Halloween Pumpkins, 13 west of Modesto California.


    Photographer: David Stein


    Photographer: Unknown

    Circa 1989


    Photographer: David Stein

    29 July 1996

    Destroyed in a crash.
    The accident occurred at Tracy, CA, United States while cruising. The airframe was destroyed. The pilot reported that the engine quit while he was en route to a job and he landed in an alfalfa field. The aircraft collided with a ditch which was obscured by the crops. A postcrash fire erupted and consumed the aircraft. The aircraft was examined by an FAA airworthiness inspector. He reported that the engine crankshaft would rotate; however, no corresponding valve action was noted on any cylinder...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    17 September 1997

    To Trinkle and Boys, Tracy, CA keeping c/r N68251.

    22 October 1998


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Tracy, CA after the accident.

    26 May 2004

    Civil registration, N68251, cancelled.
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