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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:38157 USN
    Construction Number:75-7778
    Last Civil Registration:N79561
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-3 sn 38157 USN cn 75-777...
    Latest Owner or Location:Thomas A. Rucinski, Paramus, NJ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a N2S-3 by Boeing.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 38157.

    Transferred to NAS Minneapolis, Wold-Chamberlain Field, MN.

    4 October 1943

    Involved in an incident.
    Substantially damaged in an accident landing at NOLF Fleming, St Paul, MN.

    From By 1964 to After 1971

    To Aerial Blight Control, West Bend, WI with new c/r N79561.

    By 1978

    To Gustav Wirth, Cedarburg, WI keeping c/r N79561.

    23 August 1978

    Certificate of airworthiness for N79561 (B75N1, 75-7778) issued.

    Circa May 1982


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: From my collection, photographer unknown.

    10 September 1987

    To John D. Moran, Pomfret, MA keeping c/r N79561.

    9 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: At NAS Atlanta Air Show 1990

    10 April 1994


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Lakeland, FL.

    23 August 1994

    To Aerial Illusions, Wimington, DE keeping c/r N79561.

    5 December 2001

    To Thomas A. Rucinski, Paramus, NJ keeping c/r N79561.

    16 May 2013

    To Thomas A. Rucinski, Paramus, NJ keeping c/r N79561.

    16 December 2021

    To Thomas A. Rucinski, Paramus, NJ keeping c/r N79561.
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