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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:42-17491 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-5654
    Last Civil Registration:N68832
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-13D sn 42-17491 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Michael K. Braegger, Mesa, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-13D by Boeing.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-17491.

    By March 1945

    Transferred to 3043rd Army Air Force Base Unit, War Eagle Field, CA.

    13 March 1945

    Damaged.
    Landing accident at War Eagle Field, pilot Robert H. Buchanan.

    30 October 1987

    To Kiester Investment Company, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N68832.

    26 January 1988

    Certificate of airworthiness for N68832 (E75, 755654) issued.

    10 September 1993


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Galesburg, IL.

    9 September 1996


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: I Galesburg, IL.

    7 December 1998

    To Roger K. Parrish, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N68832.

    Based at Phoenix Deer Valley Municipal Airport (South Side), Phoenix, AZ.
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    Markings Applied: 832

    October 2010


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy
    Notes: Taxiing in at Copperstate 2010.

    24 October 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: Photographed during the Copperstate Fly-In at Casa Grande, Arizona

    6 August 2020

    To Michael K. Braegger, Mesa, AZ keeping c/r N68832.

    7 September 2021


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Galesburg, IL

    23 September 2022


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Triple Tree Aerodrome, Woodruff SC
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