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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:PT-17 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:42-16588 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-4751
    Last Civil Registration:N61818
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-17 sn 42-16588 USAAF cn 7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Molenaar Jacobus Bernard, McLean, VA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-17 by Boeing.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-16588.

    1960

    To Aerial Blight Controls with new c/r N61818.


    Photographer: Curt Claus

    9 August 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for N61818 (A75N1(PT17), 75-4751) issued.

    20 August 1997

    To Blue Sky Aviation, Sellersburg, IN keeping c/r N61818.

    15 August 2006

    To Blue Sky Aviation, Sellersburg, IN keeping c/r N61818.

    5 May 2007

    To Jerry D. Hedrick, Pensacola, FL keeping c/r N61818.

    Based at The Aviation Museum of Kentucky, Lexington Blue Grass Airport/Bowman Field, Lexington, KY.
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    Markings Applied: 358
    US Navy.

    20 April 2010

    To Jerry D. Hedrick, Pensacola, FL keeping c/r N61818.

    30 April 2014

    To Jacobus Bernard Molenaar, McLean, VA keeping c/r N61818.

    4 September 2014


    Photographer: Jan Mangelschots
    Notes: At Galesburg Municipal

    6 September 2019


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Galesburg, IL Stearman Fly In

    6 September 2019


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Wolfords farm in Abingdon, IL.

    17 January 2020

    To Molenaar Jacobus Bernard, McLean, VA keeping c/r N61818.
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