Warbird: US Navy Boeing Stearman (N52533).
The Boeing Stearman Model 75, also known as Boeing Stearman or Kaydet, is a two-seat double-decker trainer aircraft. Some 10,000 of them were built during the 1930s and 1940s. These were built by the Stearman Aircraft Corporation which became a subsidiary of Boeing in 1934.
During World War II, the aircraft were used by the US Navy and US Army Air Force as training aircraft. After the war, the aircraft were given a second life as a sport aircraft or agricultural aircraft for spraying farmland with pesticides.
This aircraft is privately owned by a Swedish owner.
This photo was taken on June 24, 2022 at Saint-Dizier Air Base in France.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…