I know it isn't a biplane but...

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In writing my book, I did some research on Frank Smith and read (in an old issue of an EAA magazine) that he had built the first plans built Stits Playboy. I even found a scan of an old photograph of him sitting in the cockpit and also of his Playboy in flight. You can barely read the tail number but it looks like N47K, serial FS-1.

Turns out this airplane is still around - although semi-abandoned at Bohunk Airport (0CL6) in Lancaster, California.

Pictures are from 2016

http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/CA/Airfields_CA_PalmdaleN.htm

A neat piece of history I thought I'd pass on.

 

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