Boeing-Stearman

The Boeing-Stearman Model 75 is a biplane, of which at least 9,783 were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s as a military trainer aircraft. Stearman became a subsidiary of Boeing in 1934. Widely known as the Stearman, Boeing Stearman or Kaydet, it served as a Primary trainer for the USAAF, as a basic trainer for the USN (as the NS & N2S), and with the RCAF as the Kaydet throughout World War II.

Boeing-Stearman in Days of Infamy
Joe Crosetti received basic training in a Boeing-Stearman at the Pensacola Florida Naval Flight School in 1942. Because of the yellow pain that cover the plane, his was nick-named the Yellow Peril.