PT -17 Stearman

The Museum’s PT-17 Stearman was built by Boeing in Wichita, Kansas and delivered to the United States Army Air Force on November 16, 1942 at a cost of $5,930.00. On November 18, 1942 the aircraft was flown to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama and then transferred to Jackson Army Air Base near Jackson, Mississippi on December 14, 1942. Used to train WW ll pilots, the Stearman served many years before being sold after the war to Johnny Vasey, a well-known airshow performer. After many years on the airshow circuit, in July 1971, the airplane was sold to Amoco Inc. in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and in 1978, the airplane was again sold, this time to Aerial Application Technologies (also in Oklahoma). On November 2, 1990, the Stearman was sold to the late Jeffrey L. Austin of Salem, Oregon, and in August 2022, the Stearman was donated to the Tillamook Air Museum by the Jeffrey L. Austin Living Trust.