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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:PT-13D Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:42-17504 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-5667
    Last Civil Registration:N68830
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-13D sn 42-17504 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Gordon Bowman-Jones Llc, Helena, MT

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-13D by Boeing.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-17504.

    By 1964

    To Nevada Crop Dusters, Reno, NV with new c/r N68830.

    14 January 1977

    Civil registration, N68830, cancelled.

    8 March 1983

    Certificate of airworthiness for N68830 (PT-13D, 755667) issued.

    17 October 1983

    To Gordon H. Bowman-Jones, Pacifica, CA with new c/r N68830.

    To Estate of Gordon Bowman Jones and Christina Bowman Jones.

    Loaned to Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, CA.
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    31 August 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Aerospace Museum of California, Sacramento, CA.

    31 August 2014


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Aerospace Museum of California, Sacramento, CA.

    18 July 2015


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the California Aviation Museum in Sacramento, CA.

    21 June 2016

    To Bowman Jones Maria Christina, Pacifica, CA keeping c/r N68830.

    8 September 2017

    To Ja Draper and Associates Llc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N68830.

    30 July 2020

    To unknown owner with c/r N68830.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Helena, MT.

    7 June 2021

    To Gordon Bowman-Jones Llc, Helena, MT keeping c/r N68830.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Christina Jones
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