S/N 75045. 45th Example of Stearman built and one of only 92 PT13A's constructed.
UK CofA with next Annual due July 2025.
Engine Lycoming R680
Ground up restoration by Vintage Fabrics 2010
Top End Overhaul by Vintech 2010

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
January 1938, involved in a mid-air collision on take-off with a sister aircraft. Pilot of 466, Cadet Glen Cronkite, fatally injured.
Following repairs at San Antonio, 466 returned to service at Randolph Field, Texas
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
2nd February 1943. Cadet Joseph E Mellen undershot the runway at Auxiliary Airfield Souza and hit a boundary Fence, damaging both lower wings. He subsequently carried out two further circuits before landing to inspect the damage. Repairs completed at Cal-Aero Field, Chino, California.
13th July 1943. Walter Allen Field, PT13B 40-1608, operated by civilian instructor Fred Tattoom, taxied into 466 causing significant damage.
Transferred back to Cal Aero Academy for repairs.
18th August 1943. Returned to Hemet Field, California.
Early December 1944. Assigned to Army Air Force Base Napier Field, Alabama.
18th December 1944. Nosed over on landing to avoid a collision. Pilot 2nd Lt George D Brannon uninjured.
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.

Airplane time state:
TTAF 6170
TTE 900 (300 since TEOH)

Trig VHF Radio
Transponder

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