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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:PT-17 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:41-8615 USAAF
    Construction Number:75-2174
    Last Civil Registration:N63947
    Compressed ID:Boeing PT-17 sn 41-8615 USAAF cn 75...
    Latest Owner or Location:Argus Paul Russ, Largo, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-17 by Boeing.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-8615.

    1948

    To Safeway Crop Dusting, Decatur, IL with new c/r NR63947.

    9 April 1948


    Photographer: McLean County Historical Museum
    Notes: Funk Seed Co. hires Safeway Crop Dusting, (Decatur IL) for seeding fields with alfalfa and brome grass, men loading seed into plane, Funks Grove, IL

    1 July 1969

    Certificate of airworthiness for N63947 (A75N1(PT17), 75-2174) issued.

    25 November 1986

    To Frederick S. Gallup III, Daytona Beach, FL with new c/r N63947.

    1 January 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for N63947 (A75N1(PT17), 75-2174) issued.

    5 June 2001

    To John R. Leenhouts, Orange Park, FL keeping c/r N63947.

    Based at Tallahassee Regional Airport, Tallahassee, FL.
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    Markings Applied: 207, U.S. NAVY, N2S-3

    1 April 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Sun n Fun at Lakeland, Florida

    13 March 2012

    To John R. Leenhouts, Lakeland, FL keeping c/r N63947.

    Based at Lakeland Regional Airport, Lakeland, FL.
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    By 6 April 2016

    Markings Applied: Pammy Sue, 207, U.S. NAVY, N2S-3

    6 April 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    6 April 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL. Nose Art.

    19 July 2017

    To Stearman Inc, Saratoga Springs, NY keeping c/r N63947.

    4 April 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    10 March 2023

    To Stearman Inc, Saratoga Springs, NY keeping c/r N63947.

    18 December 2023

    To unknown owner with c/r N63947.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Largo, FL.

    28 January 2024

    To Argus Paul Russ, Largo, FL keeping c/r N63947.

    30 May 2024


    Photographer: Russ Argus
    Notes: Clearwater Airpark
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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