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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:PT-13A Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:38-0470 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-0118
    Last Civil Registration:HB-DHU
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-13A sn 38-0470 USAAF cn 7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Biel - Kapellen, Bern

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-13A by Boeing.

    1938

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Corps with s/n 38-0470.


    Photographer: Robert Reedy Collection

    20 June 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 38-0470.

    To unknown owner with c/r N57852 (E75, 75118).

    Circa February 1988


    Photographer: Larry Johnson Collection

    5 April 1990

    Civil registration, N57852, cancelled.

    From 6 April 1990 to 27 August 1991

    To Victor Samuel Eric Norman with new c/r G-BSDS.

    From 27 August 1991 to 25 September 1991

    To John Norton Carter keeping c/r G-BSDS.

    From 25 September 1991 to 25 April 2000

    To Eric Hopper keeping c/r G-BSDS.

    From 25 April 2000 to 21 July 2009

    To Adriana Basso keeping c/r G-BSDS.

    21 July 2009

    To Leslie Walter Scattergood, Cawood, Selby keeping c/r G-BSDS.

    Markings Applied: 118
    Painted in USAAC colors.


    Photographer: Unknown / UK Register
    Notes: Undated, uncredited photo from the UK Register

    Based at Biel-Kapellen, Bern.
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    6 April 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Biel - Kapellen, Bern, Switzerland

    6 April 2018


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Biel - Kapellen, Bern, Switzerland

    2022

    To unknown owner with c/r HB-DHU.

    22 April 2023


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Biel-Kappelen

    14 August 2023


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Biel-Kappelen
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Mario Richard
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