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    Airframe Family: Stearman 4 Junior Speedmail / 80 / 81 Sportster
    Latest Model:4E Senior Speedmail
    Construction Number:4001
    Last Civil Registration:N13905
    Compressed ID:Stearman 4E cn 4001 cr N13905
    Latest Owner or Location:Wheeler Rostell Cedric, Springfield, MA

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    Dates

    Event

    1929

    Constructed as a 4C.

    To unknown owner with c/r NS2.


    Photographer: Deed Levy Collection
    Notes: This later became a Model 4E.

    1929


    Photographer: Deed Levy Collection
    Notes: On the back of the photo it says the first flight Sept. - Oct. 1929.


    Photographer: Larry Johnson Collection
    Notes: This photo is from The Boeing Company Archives.

    26 September 1929

    To US Department of Commerce, Aviation Division with new c/r NS2.

    Converted to a 4D.

    To Civil Aeronautics Administration keeping c/r NS2.

    Converted to a 4E.

    To Civil Aeronautics Administration with new c/r NC12.

    25 April 1938

    To Wheeler Rostell Cedric, Springfield, MA with new c/r N13905.

    13 December 1939

    Civil registration, N13905, cancelled.
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