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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:41-8731 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-2290
    Last Civil Registration:N33NA
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-17 sn 41-8731 USAAF cn 75...
    Latest Owner or Location:Roger Brown, Port Saint Lucie, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-17 by Boeing.

    1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-8731.

    1941

    Transferred to 6th AAF Flying Training Detachment, Glendale, AZ.

    22 March 1942

    Damaged.
    Mid-air Collision, pilot Lauren D. Dreisbach.

    31 October 1943

    Damaged.
    Taxiing accident, pilot Melvin J. Guymon.

    From Circa 1945 to Circa 1960

    To Sawyer Aviation with new c/r N49383.
    Bill Hall: Post war and into the 1950s and possibly 1960s civilian duty at least partially as a duster.

    Circa 10 July 1953


    Photographer: Bill Hall
    Notes: This photo of Boeing PT-17 N49383 shows the aircraft in approximately 1953 or 1954 as a cropduster operated by Sawyer Aviation, loading chemicals at Joseph State airport, Joseph, Oregon. The aircraft was later re-certified and now bears the registry number N33NA

    1960


    Photographer: Jim Devine
    Notes: At Walla Walla City Airport

    By September 1969

    To unknown owner with c/r N49383.

    23 September 1969

    Certificate of airworthiness for N33NA (A75N1(PT17), 75-2290) issued.

    To unknown owner with c/r N10WK.

    24 July 1990

    To Roger Brown, Lowell, MI with new c/r N33NA.

    24 July 1990

    To Roger Brown, Port Saint Lucie, FL keeping c/r N33NA.

    27 August 2003

    To Roger Brown, Lowell, MI keeping c/r N33NA.

    5 September 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Antique Airfield, Blakesburg, IA

    5 September 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Antique Airfield, Blakesburg, IA

    25 September 2009

    To Roger Brown, Port Saint Lucie, FL keeping c/r N33NA.

    15 April 2010


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Sun-n-Fun. Lakeland FL

    30 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Sun n Fun at Lakeland, Florida

    5 April 2017


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    6 September 2019


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

    9 September 2021


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Galesburg, IL after a rebuild. It now has nav. lights and the registration no. is on the fuselage now.
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    Terry Fletcher
    Bill Hall
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