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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:N2S-3 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:07877 USN
    Construction Number:75-7481
    Last Civil Registration:N60085
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-3 sn 07877 USN cn 75-748...
    Latest Owner or Location:Rocks Aero Llc, Flower Mound, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a N2S-3 by Boeing.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 07877.

    13 August 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for N60085 (A75N1(PT17), 75-7481) issued.

    By 1958

    To Dustaire Inc, East Middlebury, VT with new c/r N60085.

    By 1971

    To Lawrence J. Kampel Jr., Wellsville, PA keeping c/r N60085.

    By 1978

    To George D. Phinney, Ripton, VT keeping c/r N60085.

    3 July 1991

    To Gary L. Platner, Flower Mound, TX keeping c/r N60085.

    16 July 1997

    To Gary L. Platner, Lewisville, TX keeping c/r N60085.
    Markings added: 202
    US Navy Titles.

    30 October 2006

    To Gary L. Platner, Flower Mound, TX keeping c/r N60085.

    11 May 2010

    To Gary L. Platner, Flower Mound, TX keeping c/r N60085.

    24 August 2016

    To Gary L. Platner, Flower Mound, TX keeping c/r N60085.

    7 October 2016

    To Plane Shop Llc, Roanoke, TX keeping c/r N60085.

    10 October 2020


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At the TXAAA Annual Fly-in; Gainesville, TX [KGLE]

    27 September 2021

    To Plane Shop Llc, Roanoke, TX keeping c/r N60085.

    2 February 2023

    To unknown owner with c/r N60085.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Flower Mound, TX.

    5 May 2023

    To Rocks Aero Llc, Flower Mound, TX keeping c/r N60085.
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