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    Airframe Family: Stearman 4 Junior Speedmail / 80 / 81 Sportster
    Latest Model:4EM Senior Speedmail
    Construction Number:4021
    Last Civil Registration:CF-AMB {2}
    Compressed ID:Stearman 4EM cn 4021 cr CF-AMB
    Latest Owner or Location:Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    1930

    Constructed as a 4E.

    15 July 1930

    To Standard Oil Company, CA with new c/r NC784H.

    1942

    Converted to a crop duster.

    25 January 1965

    To Wilson Dean, Homedale, ID with new c/r N784H.

    13 February 1965

    Civil registration, N784H, cancelled.

    13 February 1965

    To John N Paterson, Fort William, ON.

    From 1965 to 1969

    Restored as a 4EM.
    Returned to flying condition and converted back from a crop sprayer.

    18 November 1969

    Assigned civil registration: CF-AMB {2}

    3 December 1969

    First post-restoration Flight.

    To Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, ON.
    View the Location Dossier

    15 June 2008


    Photographer: Nick Dean
    Notes: 2008 photo of Stearman 4E Senior Speedmail at the Canada Aviation Museum in Ottowa - photo displayed with written permission of Nick Dean

    15 September 2013


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 2013 photo at Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa-Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)
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