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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:N2S-1 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:3236 USN
    Construction Number:75-1013
    Last Civil Registration:N78R
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-1 sn 3236 USN cn 75-1013...
    Latest Owner or Location:Red Star Aero Holdings Llc, Mobile, AL

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a N2S-1 by Boeing.

    1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 3236.

    11 June 1943

    Involved in an incident.
    Damaged in an accident landing at Beacon Field, Alexandria, VA.

    From 15 October 1945 to After 1964

    To Saint Louis University, Parks Airport, Saint. Louis, with new c/r NC48186.

    1953


    Photographer: James H. Harvey / St. Louis University Libraries Archives and Records Management
    Notes: At Parks College

    By 1968

    To Superior Oil, Houston, TX with new c/r N78R.

    From By 1971 to Circa 1987

    To Howard Keck, Houston, TX keeping c/r N78R.

    31 December 1987

    To Marie E. Keck Trustee, Oakland, CA keeping c/r N78R.

    21 January 1998

    To Marie E. Keck Trustee, Oakland, CA keeping c/r N78R.

    30 October 2000

    To Phillip W. Bass, Magnolia Springs, AL keeping c/r N78R.

    28 March 2018

    To Torus Heavy Llc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N78R.

    May 2018


    Photographer: Nick Van Houten

    August 2018


    Photographer: Nick Van Houten

    6 March 2020


    Photographer: Rick Finch
    Notes: A Boeing A75N1 departing Sonny Callahan Airport, Fairhope, AL, during the Classic Jet Aircraft Associations 2020 Jet Blast

    28 June 2022

    To unknown owner with c/r N78R.
    Registration pending for Red Star Aero Holdings, Mobile, AL.

    15 March 2023

    To Red Star Aero Holdings Llc, Mobile, AL keeping c/r N78R.
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