Stearman OE-AMM
Year built
1943
Aircraft
E75 Kaydet
Base
Salzburg Airport
This Exact Stearman left the Boeing production plant in 1943 as an E75 and was taken on Strength with the United States Army Air Corps with serial number 42-16869 later that year.
After serving with the United States Army Air Corps the Stearman was sold to private hands in the US with the civil registration N5379N.
In September 2002 it was sold to the Flying Bulls and exported to Austria where it received a new Red Bull colour scheme and a new civil registration OE-AMM 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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