Stearman
PT-17
Kaydet
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Photo: Robert Deering 10/12/2008
Alliance Airport (AFW)
Fort Worth, Texas
The PT-17 was a standard primary trainer flown by the United States and several allied nations during the late 1930s through World War II. In 1933 Lloyd Stearman designed the forerunner of the Kaydet, the Model 70, for the civilian market. Three years later, the U.S. Army Air Corps adopted a militarized version;  the PT-13 was powered by a Lycoming engine, a Kaydet with a Continental engine received the designation PT-17, and with a Jacobs engine, the PT-18. A later version which featured a cockpit canopy was designated the PT-27. 

There were 3,519 PT-17's delivered the Army Air Corps
SPECIFICATIONS: PERFORMANCE:
Span: 32 ft 2 in (9.81 m)
Length:  24 ft 9 in (7.54 m)
Height:  9 ft 8 in (3 m)
Empty Weight:  1,931 lb (878 kg

Gross Weight:  2,635 lb (1,200 kg)
Crew:
two, student and instructor
Maximum speed: 135 mph (117 knots, 217 km/h)
Cruising speed: 96 mph (83 knots, 155 km/h)
Range: 13,200 ft (4,024 m)
Service ceiling:
Engines: 1 × Continental R-670-5 seven-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, 220 hp (164 kW)
   
SOURCE: National Museum of the United States Air Force and Wikipedia   

Photo: Robert Deering 7/21/2018
Frontiers of Flight Museum
Love Field (DAL)

Dallas, Texas
VARIANTS:

N2S
Kaydet

PT-13
Kaydet