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Boeing Stearman

S/N 75045. 45th Example of Stearman built and one of only 92 PT13A's constructed.

Based at Enstone UK.

UK CofA with next annual to be renewed in July 2025.
Engine Lycoming R680-17
Ground up restoration by Vintage Fabrics 2010
Top End Overhaul by Vintech 2010
Total Time Airframe 6169 hours
Engine Total Time 902 hours (300 hours since Top End Overhaul)
Interior 9/10
Exterior 9/10
Avionics Trig VHF Radio
Transponder

Includes the following:
2No.Seat Parachutes
Cockpit Cover
Tow Bar
Spares

Brief Pre-War & Wartime History

• October 1937. Delivered from Boeing’s Wichita Plant and assigned to D Flight, 2332nd Base Unit Randolph Field, Texas, and given ID 466
• August 1939. Assigned to Contract Pilot School (CPS) Curtis Reynolds Field. Illinois
• March 1941. Assigned to Spartan School of Aeronautics, Muskogee, Oklahoma.
• 21st May 1941. Assigned to CPS, 3051st Base Unit, Hemet Field, California.
• 25th October 1941 Assigned to the C.P.S. Visalia-Dinuba School of Aeronautics, 3051st Base Unit, Sequoia Field, California
• 28th March 1942. Assigned to CPS at Hancock Field, California
• Early December 1944. Assigned to Army Air Force Base Napier Field, Alabama.
• 6th July 1945. Assigned to Georgia Aero Tech C.P.S., Bush Field, Augusta, Georgia
• 10th July 1945. Struck off charge and handed to US Aeroplane Carriers Inc.
• 30th November 1945. Sold to Maryland Airlines Inc. for $800.00 and acquired the civil registration N60658, changing to N731 in 1953. The aircraft remained as N731 until being placed on the UK register in 2016 as G-PTBA.