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    Airframe Family: Stearman Kaydet / Boeing 75/76/90/91 / X-90 / X-91 / XBT-17
    Latest Model:N2S-5 Kaydet
    Last Military Serial:43501 USN
    Construction Number:75-8595
    Last Civil Registration:N1704M
    Compressed ID:Boeing N2S-5 sn 43501 USN cn 75-859...
    Latest Owner or Location:Plane Fun Inc TR Trustee, Snellville, GA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PT-13D by Boeing.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-109562.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 43501 as a N2S-5.

    1943


    Photographer: Chad Cole Collection

    By 1963

    To Norman L. Burnette, Wynee, AR with new c/r N1704M.

    1967

    To William L Paschal, GA keeping c/r N1704M.
    He bought it in Mississippi and flew it all the way back to NW Georgia with no seatbelts or floorboards and only had a rope instead of seatbelts.

    1967


    Photographer: Chad Cole Collection

    1969

    To Lee Cummings, Rockmart, GA keeping c/r N1704M.

    28 March 1969

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1704M (E75, 75-8595) issued.

    20 March 1987

    To Joseph C. Irvin, Gainesville, GE keeping c/r N1704M.

    31 January 1991

    To Joseph C. Irvin, Gainesville, GE keeping c/r N1704M.

    5 April 1992


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Lakeland, FL.

    20 August 2008

    To Thomas C. Epperson, Haines City, FL keeping c/r N1704M.

    31 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2012 Sun N Fun, Lakeland, Florida

    7 January 2013

    To Plane Fun Inc TR Trustee, Snellville, GA keeping c/r N1704M.
    Markings added: 595

    30 October 2018

    To Plane Fun Inc TR Trustee, Snellville, GA keeping c/r N1704M.
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