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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:40-1781 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-0338
    Last Civil Registration:N63529
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-17 sn 40-1781 USAAF cn 75...
    Latest Owner or Location:Victoria S. Benzing, Saratoga, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-17 by Boeing.

    Circa 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 40-1781.

    March 1963

    To Watts Agricultural Services, Woodland, CA with new c/r N63529.

    By 1978

    To Jack A. Huey Jr., Marysville, CA keeping c/r N63529.

    2 September 1987

    To Tacker Aero keeping c/r N63529.


    Photographer: Hal Tacker
    Notes: Pilots Harold and Hal Tacker (Harold Jr.) Photographer Philip Wallick 1993.

    30 October 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for N63529 (A75N1(PT17), 75-338) issued.

    30 April 1999

    To Inpatient Dental Services Inc, Gilroy, CA keeping c/r N63529.

    14 September 2000

    To Victoria S. Benzing, Saratoga, CA keeping c/r N63529.

    17 November 2014

    To Victoria S. Benzing, Saratoga, CA keeping c/r N63529.

    20 June 2015


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Hollister Air Show in California.

    16 April 2016


    Photographer: Michael C Huggins / Stearman Biplane Facebook
    Notes: At 2016 Airfest at March Field

    18 June 2016


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Hollister Air Show at Hollister, California.

    18 June 2016

    29 July 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at 2017 EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh

    29 September 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Salinas International Air Show in Salinas, CA.

    29 September 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Salinas International Air Show in Salinas, CA.

    22 May 2022


    Photographer: Gary Maisack
    Notes: Oregon International Airshow, Hillsboro, OR
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