Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet in Flight

A Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet banks overhead during the 2025 SHG Airshow at Sivrihisar, Eskişehir. Wearing the classic blue fuselage, chrome-yellow wings and striped rudder of a US Army Air Corps trainer, with the number 196 on its side, this two-seat biplane represents the aircraft on which tens of thousands of pilots learned to fly in the 1930s and 1940s. More than 10,000 Model 75 Kaydets were built for the US Army and Navy, and many survive today as airshow and vintage pleasure aircraft. Its open cockpits and big radial engine make it one of the most recognisable sounds and sights at any historic flying display.