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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:N2S-4 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:55658 USN
    Construction Number:75-4895
    Last Civil Registration:N61GP
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-4 sn 55658 USN cn 75-489...
    Latest Owner or Location:Porkupine Aero Inc, Wilmington, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-17 by Boeing.

    Circa 1942

    Assigned s/n 42-16732 with the United States Army Air Force for administrative purposes. It did not serve with this service.
    Constructed for USAAF as 42-16732, but contract was cancelled and taken by the Navy.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 55658 as a N2S-4.

    5 February 1946

    To Northern Aircraft Co with new c/r CF-DFA.

    From Unknown to 14 February 1949

    To Northern Aircraft Co with new c/r CF-DFE.

    From 1949 to 1953

    To Klamath Aircraft Service Klamath Falls, OR, USA.

    20 April 1953

    To Skyway Air Services Ltd, Langley, BC with new c/r CF-DFC.

    From 1953 to 1957

    Operated as a agricultural sprayer/tanker with fleet #81.
    Flown in New Brunswick, Canada, on Operation Budworm.

    1956


    Photographer: Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
    Notes: Skyway Stearman CF-DFC #81

    20 June 1958

    Crashed.
    Crashed near Boundary Bay Airport, Delta, BC. According to the Department of Transport accident card, the pilot selected an unsuitable area for landing and turned over after hitting an electric fence. The damage was substantial: the prop was bent, and the left upper panel was damaged at tip fin and rudder. Pilot F. Legrice was not injured.

    1967


    Photographer: Mike Ody Collection

    From 1968 to 1969

    Operated as a agricultural sprayer/tanker with fleet #14.
    Flew in New Brunswick, Canada, on Operation Budworm.

    30 April 1969

    To Conair Aviation, Abbottsford, BC keeping c/r CF-DFC.
    Transferred to Conair Aviation, Abbottsford, B.C.

    To Conair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford, BC keeping c/r CF-DFC.

    16 July 1970

    Civil registration, CF-DFC, cancelled.

    By 1982

    To unknown owner with c/r N6027.

    2 June 1982


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Stanfield, Arizona

    2 June 1982


    Photographer: Larry Johnson

    15 May 1987

    Certificate of airworthiness for N61GP (A75N1(PT17), 75-4895) issued.

    14 September 1995

    To Thomas T. Ungurean, Coshocton, OH with new c/r N61GP.

    16 September 1998

    To Thomas T. Ungurean, Coshocton, OH keeping c/r N61GP.

    8 August 2012


    Photographer: Olivier Cortot
    Notes: At Zanesville Municipal, Ohio

    1 October 2012

    To Thomas T. Ungorean, Coshocton, OH keeping c/r N61GP.

    1 January 2015

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX61GP (A75N1(PT17), 75-4895) issued.

    25 May 2015

    To Thomas T. Ungorean, Coshocton, OH keeping c/r N61GP.
    Last CR action date noted here.

    23 March 2019

    Civil registration, N61GP, cancelled.

    21 August 2020

    To Ungurean Mary Sandra, Coshocton, OH keeping c/r N61GP.

    7 February 2021

    21 April 2021

    To Robert B. Phillips, Coshocton, OH keeping c/r N61GP.

    13 June 2021


    Photographer: John Graham

    5 July 2024

    To Porkupine Aero Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N61GP.


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