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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Boeing A75N1(PT17)
N68825 is a Boeing A75N1(PT17), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation in Port Townsend, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 10, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- A75N1(PT17) · all A75N1(PT17)s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Stearman: welded steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric over all of it. This is how the Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 75-5708
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A923AB (octal 52221653)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 10, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00720177
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Port Townsend Aero Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 105 Airport Rd
Port Townsend, WA 98368-9716
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N68825 links to the rest of the register
- Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 978 registered
- Boeing 6,672 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental W670 series 987 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Port Townsend Aero Museum 55 aircraft in the fleet
- Port Townsend, WA 120 aircraft registered in this town
- Jefferson County International · 0S9
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 18 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 104 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental W670 series 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental W670 series 8 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N68825, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation, certificate issued October 7, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 75-5708 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N68825 according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N68825: Accident on April 28, 2019 at Sequim, WA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stearman A75N1(PT17) · operated under 091
The total loss of engine power due to the fatigue failure of the crankshaft.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data