Original Item: Only One Piece Available. Now this is an interesting item to behold. It is a 60 inch long piece of material cut from a Boeing-Stearman training airplane! The canvas type material features an all yellow surface paint with the all white 5 pointed star with a blue painted circle and with a white rectangle on both sides of the circle. This symbol with the all white star generally signifies use within the U.S. Navy.

Unfortunately, the section of canvas has been rolled up for many years and the paint is cracking throughout, leaving visible lines where the roll marks are. This is a strong canvas type material which stood the test of time, just not the paint. The wings were mostly made of a wooden frame and this material was stretched and fitted around the frame, which is also why its single sided.

Once unrolled and it is able to lay flat once again, this would make for a beautiful wall hanger! Pieces such as this are very hard to come by, with not too many of these aircrafts still around. The ones that are still flight worthy are privately owned and most of which are in museums. Don’t miss an opportunity to add a piece of a very iconic aircraft, especially one that helped the allies dominate the skies of WWII!

Comes ready to display in your aviation collection!

The Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 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 chose to cowl the engine, most notably the Red Baron Stearman Squadron.

The Stearman was a primary trainer flown by the United States and several Allied nations during World War II. From 1934 until February 1945, the Stearman Aircraft Company, a division of the Boeing Aircraft Company, built a total of 8,428 model 75 airplanes for the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy for use as primary trainers.

After World War II, thousands of surplus PT-17s were auctioned off to civilians and former military pilots. Many were modified for crop dusting use, with a hopper for pesticide or fertilizer fitted in place of the front cockpit. Additional equipment included pumps, spray bars, and nozzles mounted below the lower wings. A popular approved modification to increase the maximum takeoff weight and climb performance involved fitting a larger Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior engine and a constant-speed propeller.