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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:PT-27 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:43-15683 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-3872
    Last Civil Registration:N56773
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-27 sn 43-15683 USAAF cn 7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Jack Mulkey, Klamath Falls, OR

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-27 by Boeing.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-15683.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n FJ822.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-15683.

    By 1951

    To Midland Air Services, Klamath Falls, OR with new c/r N56773.

    1951


    Photographer: Joan G. Hill Collection
    Notes: At Klamath Falls, OR.

    July 1955


    Photographer: R.B.Pope
    Notes: N56773 heads a line of Stearman spray planes tied down after a days spraying. Western spruce budworm control project. Big Summit airstrip, Ochoco control unit, Oregon.

    July 1955


    Photographer: R.B.Pope
    Notes: Big Summit prairie

    1957

    To Farmers Air Service, Klamath Falls, OR keeping c/r N56773.

    1960


    Photographer: Forest Protection
    Notes: After extensive research, I can find no trace of N65773 being registered against a Stearman aircraft - I now believe that this is N56773 - with the registration mis-painted

    16 December 1971

    To Jack Mulkey, Klamath Falls, OR keeping c/r N56773.

    18 December 1981

    Civil registration, N56773, cancelled.
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