The article features a 1941 Boeing/Stearman A75N1 (PT-17) as "Aircraft For Sale's" daily top pick. The Stearman is praised for its robust and forgiving design, originally for military trainees, making ...

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Fairchild UC-61. Photo by James Euverard. Two iconic WWII Coast Guard aircraft will take to the skies over Culpeper for the first time ever. The Capital Wing of the Commemorative Air Force has brought ...

Gus McLeod circled the North Pole on April 17, becoming the first person to reach the pole in an open-cockpit plane. But little did he know that an even more difficult journey lay ahead. The 1939 ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fly in a WWII warbird came to Lancaster Airport's Community Days event this weekend. The Capital Wing of the Commemorative Air Force ...

Two pre-World War II planes, a Boeing PT-17 Stearman, top, and a De Havilland Tiger Moth cruise above a river near Schondorf, Germany, Wednesday. The biplanes were part of a meeting of vintage planes ...

Arthur Grabiner, a World War II veteran, was honored Thursday as part of a series of Dream Flights on a World War II-era Boeing PT 17 Stearman biplane trainer out of Republic Airport in East ...

Ross Munro says compared to other aircraft he flew in during his military career, the World War II-era Boeing PT-17 Stearman biplane is much “sportier.” “It was kind of like a sports car, you know, ...

Aug. 14—Four Lewis County veterans took to the skies in a 1942 Boeing PT-17 Stearman biplane at the Chehalis-Centralia Airport on Monday courtesy of Dream Flights, a nonprofit organization out of ...

The bright yellow vintage PT-17 Stearman biplane taxiing into Ellington Airport on Monday once trained World War II pilots. In two years, it will be part of a state-of–the-art aviation learning center ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Over 10,000 Stearman trainers were built by Boeing's Wichita Division, which had purchased the Stearman Company in the ...

In this June 14, 2019, photo Doug Compton takes retired Air Force Lt. Col. Bill Willis, 97, for a ride in a Boeing-Stearman at the Morgan County Airport in Morgan, Utah. (Kristin Murphy/The Deseret ...