Dates

Event

1942

Constructed as a PT-27 by Boeing.

1942

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-15798.

1942

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n FJ937 as a Kaydet I.
For use in Canada for Empire Air Training Scheme.

1943

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-15798 as a PT-27.
Returned to USAAF.

To 1st Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment, Santa Maria Municipal Airport, CA.

22 December 1943

Written off.
At Hancock Field, CA due to mid-air collision. Pilot John Simpson killed.

Photographer: Larry Johnson Collection
Notes: Late 1940s or early 1950s in Los Angles, CA.

By 1955

To Hammer Crop Dusters with new c/r N53178.
Operated with markings: 52

9 June 1955

Involved in an incident.
At Nictau -the pilot turned downwind throwing the aircraft out of control and into heavy bushes The pilot had come in at nose high and with wings level between two trees, shearing the trunks close to the tops and removing all four wing panels. The Stearman hit the ground flat on the fuselage but spun around, driving a two-inch branch through the fuselage behind the cockpit, narrowly missing the pilot.

9 June 1955

Photographer: Forest Protection
Notes: Crash site near Nictau

14 September 1968

To Jessee David, Corona Del Mar, CA keeping c/r N53178.
Markings added: 56

Photographer: Unknown

23 September 1970

Civil registration, N53178, cancelled.