Rankin Academy PT-13 Stearman N4672V 2024-06-07

This is a repaint only, for the payware Vertigo Studios Stearman Vol.1 set. This repaint depicts the restored Stearman PT-13 N4672V, registered to San Benito Land & Cattle Co. and operated by the Hugh's Vintage Aircraft Museum, based at Hollister, California. The aircraft was manufactured as USAAF 42-17343 and following WWII entered civilian life as early as 1955. The aircraft is painted in the markings of an early pre-war Stearman trainer, based at Rankin Field/Rankin Academy, Tulare, California. (Major Richard Bong, the highest-scoring American ace of WWII, is one of the noted pilots to have trained at Rankin during WWII.)