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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:30017 USN
    Construction Number:75-3347
    Last Civil Registration:N87WF
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-4 sn 30017 USN cn 75-334...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lucy Donald E III, Newbury Park, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1942

    Constructed as a N2S-4 by Boeing.

    1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 30017.

    By January 1964

    To Ernies Flying Services, Crowley, LA with new c/r N4534N.

    By 1971

    Civil registration, N4534N, cancelled.

    14 December 2001

    To LBBGJB Inc, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N87WF.
    Operated with markings: 128
    US Navy titles.

    March 2006


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: At Lakeland, Florida

    7 April 2006


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Leeward Air Ranch, Ocala FL

    18 August 2018

    To LBBGJB Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N87WF.

    19 December 2019

    To Robert C. Vajdos Jr, Louise, TX keeping c/r N87WF.

    15 April 2021

    To Lucy Donald E III, Glen Carbon, IL keeping c/r N87WF.

    22 May 2021

    Involved in an incident.
    A Stearman biplane flipped upside down during a forced landing in a field in Ventura.CA.Both occupants were not injured.

    16 August 2023

    To Lucy Donald E III, Newbury Park, CA keeping c/r N87WF.
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