National Stearman Fly-In – Day 4

After this N2S-5 Stearman was no longer needed by the Navy, it was used as a crop duster, says current owner C.H. “Woody” Woodhull, Miami Lakes, FL. He got the plane in 1976 as “half of my pay for a year of crop dusting.” Converting a duster Stearman back to a dual-cockpit configuration often took a lot of work, but Woodhull said that wasn’t much of a problem with this plane. But the restoration still took a lot of time and money, he says. Woodhull’s first visit to the National Stearman Fly-In was in 2001.

Photo: Robert Harrison, National Stearman Fly-In