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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:N2S-1 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:3163 USN
    Construction Number:75-0940
    Last Civil Registration:F-HDVD
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-1 sn 3163 USN cn 75-0940...
    Latest Owner or Location:Saint Jacques Airport (south side), Rennes, Bretagne

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a N2S-1 by Boeing.

    1 January 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 3163.

    By 1960

    To Illinois University, Urbana, IL with new c/r N64078.

    8 May 1969

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4079 (A75N1(PT17), 75940) issued.

    September 1973


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Galesburg Municipal

    12 April 1984

    To Stearman East Corp, Edgartown, MA with new c/r N4079.

    10 September 1993


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Galesburg, IL.

    17 February 1999

    To Stearman East Corp, Franklin Lakes, NJ keeping c/r N4079.

    19 July 2011

    To David W. Moore, Indian Rocks Beach, FL keeping c/r N4079.

    19 May 2014

    Civil registration, N4079, cancelled.
    Exported to France.

    22 July 2014

    To Huges Duval with new c/r F-HDVD.

    Based at La Ferte-Alais, Essonne.
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    17 June 2017


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at La Ferte Alais, Essonne, France

    To Saint Jacques Airport (south side), Rennes, Bretagne.
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     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
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