when Mitchell's family and former partner bought a fleet of 42 military surplus Stearman training biplanes for $55.56 each. Chambers County will honor the area's six-decade crop dusting history ...

The National Stearman Fly-In started back in 1971 when ... and they encouraged the working girls (also known as crop dusters), military stock, civilian, and 450-hp airshow performers to come!

In his time, her grandfather used Piper J-3 Cubs and Boeing Stearman biplanes ... there was only one other large crop-dusting business in town, and she took a job there. New pilots usually ...

The Stearman Model 75 was used by the military ... through the war and kept them gong for decades afterward, often as crop dusters. Their high lift, low speed, and low prices on the war-surplus ...

Many people refer to us as crop dusting. Nowadays we refer to ourselves ... business I was flying converted World War II trainers, stearman biplanes, and operators has bought these things surplus ...

The relatively slow-flying WWI biplanes were a good fit for the job, and for the next couple of decades, retrofitted versions were used widely for crop dusting. Stearman trainers were used most ...

Boeing’s Stearman was introduced in 1934 ... and were relegated mostly to crop-dusting duties. We don’t have the operational history of this particular biplane. It is one of the A75N1 variety ...

The crop duster was there, too, helping the veterans up and into the front seat of the yellow Stearman trainer plane. “The thing they are most nervous about is getting in and out of the airplane.” ...

Ely, who suggested a crop duster plane be modified to fight fires in 1955, died March 20 in Chico. He was 94. The altered Stearman crop duster did a successful test at Willows Airport, and in ...

According to a release, by acquiring the assets of Dusters & Sprayers under the AirCorps Depot name, they will manage and build up a Stearman inventory alongside their P-51 Mustang parts inventory ...