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    Airframe Family: Stearman 6 Cloudboy
    Latest Model:6L Cloudboy
    Construction Number:6004
    Last Civil Registration:N795H
    Compressed ID:Stearman 6L cn 6004 cr N795H
    Latest Owner or Location:Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1930

    Constructed as a 6A.
    Ten Stearman Cloudboys were built (6 civil and 4 military). Only two survive.

    From Circa 1931 to 1941

    To Boeing School, Aeronautics, Oakland, CA with new c/r NC795H.

    Circa 1936

    Converted to a 6L.

    Circa 1945

    Operated as crop duster after WWII.

    By 1963

    To Allyn Crutchett, Berkeley, CA with new c/r N795H.

    Circa 1969

    To Frank Luft and Elwood Leibfritz, San Jose, CA keeping c/r N795H.

    13 May 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N795H (6L, 6004) issued.

    May 1972


    Photographer: Dorothy Bradley Collection
    Notes: At Watsonville, CA

    Markings Applied: 795, P-225
    Marked as USAAC YPT-9B.

    November 1991


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airshow, Chino Airport, CA

    6 August 1996

    To Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA keeping c/r N795H.

    Based at Yanks Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    13 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA.

    13 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA.

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited in Hall 1 of Yanks Air Museum at Chino, California

    17 December 2020

    To Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA keeping c/r N795H.
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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
    Air Progress Magazine
    Internet Sources
     AOPA Pilot Magazine by Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Skip Spafford
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