Stearman F-AZGR
Year built
1941
Aircraft
N2S-3 Kaydet
Base
Saint-Dizier Robinson Aeroclub
This Exact Stearman left the Boeing production plant in 1941 as an N2S-3 and was taken on Strength with the United States Navy with Bureau Number 4320 later that year. After serving with the US Navy the Stearman was sold on the civilian market and received the civil registration N62418. On the 27th of April 1990, the Stearman was sold to Salis Jean and was exported to France where it received a new civil registration F-AZGR. In 2003 the aircraft received the temporary BP Oil colours before receiving the tiger colour scheme it has to this day.
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Boeing-Stearman Model 75
The Stearman (Boeing) is a biplane formerly used as a military trainer aircraft, of which at least 10,626 were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. Stearman Aircraft became a subsidiary of Boeing in 1934. Widely known as the Stearman, Boeing Stearman, or Kaydet, it served as a primary trainer for the United States Army Air Forces, the United States Navy (as the NS and N2S), and with the Royal Canadian Air Force as the Kaydet throughout World War II. After the conflict was over, thousands of surplus aircraft were sold on the civilian market. In the immediate postwar years, they became popular as crop dusters and sports planes, and for aerobatic and wing walking use in air shows.
The Kaydet was a conventional biplane of rugged construction, with a large, fixed tailwheel undercarriage, and accommodation for the student and instructor in open cockpits in tandem. The radial engine was usually not cowled, although some Stearman operators choose to cowl the engine, most notably the Red Baron Stearman Squadron.
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