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    Airframe Family: Stearman 4 Junior Speedmail / 80 / 81 Sportster
    Latest Model:4D Junior Speedmail
    Construction Number:4025
    Last Civil Registration:N774H {2}
    Compressed ID:Stearman 4D cn 4025 cr N774H
    Latest Owner or Location:Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum, Hood River, OR

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    Dates

    Event

    1931

    Constructed as a 4D.

    1931

    To Aline Rhonie, Aviation Country Club, Long Island, NY with new c/r NC796H.

    1934

    To Wyoming Air Service keeping c/r NC796H.

    By 1971

    To Shelby Hicks, Merced, CA with new c/r N774H {2}.

    1984

    To Ronald E. Rex, Ocala FL keeping c/r N774H {2}.

    5 December 1991

    Certificate of airworthiness for N774H {2} (4D, 4025) issued.

    Markings Applied: Western Air Express colors

    11 April 1999


    Photographer: Earl A Holmquist
    Notes: Photographed at the EAA Air Show in Lakeland, FL.

    11 April 1999


    Photographer: Earl A Holmquist

    20 March 2003

    To Ronald E. Rex, Ocala, FL keeping c/r N774H {2}.

    21 March 2006

    To Ronald E. Rex, Ocala, FL keeping c/r N774H {2}.

    Based at Leeward Air Ranch, Leeward Air Ranch, Ocala, FL.
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    9 October 2013

    To Ronald E. Rex, Ocala, FL keeping c/r N774H {2}.


    Photographer: Tim Kirby / Stearman Biplanes Facebook Group
    Notes: Rare Stearman 4D in Florida

    9 August 2016

    To Ronald E. Rex, Ocala, FL keeping c/r N774H {2}.

    19 July 2017

    To Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum, Hood River, OR keeping c/r N774H {2}.

    Based at Western Antique Aeroplane and Auto Museum, Hood River Jernstedt Airfield, Hood River, OR.
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    17 June 2020

    To Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum, Hood River, OR keeping c/r N774H {2}.
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