Boeing YL-15 Scout

[bdk]

N4770C was derelict at Lake Hood, Alaska in 1989.

Any status? Still owned by the guy in Wasilla?

[The Inspector]

According to the FAA site,
s/n 47-427 reg. N4435P is registered to a guy in Anchorage and s/n 47-432 is 'pending' reg N4770C to a guy in Wasilla the only other YL-15 on the civil reg is one in Minnesnowplace.

[Edward Sheetmetalhands]

Wow! I located a photo. I had no idea the Boeing Wichita did that. I suppose that was the last gasp of the Plant I Stearman factory to continue building something of similar size. Maybe it was made obsolete by the KB-29 modification and B-47 model production requirements.

[lusc10]

I heard that C & H aviation. The ones that have the P-82 project has a flying XL-15. I always thought that it would be a cool aircraft to have. Warbird and rare. I have a copy of the Maintance manaul and that is as close to finding one as I got.

Randy Tait

[JBoyle]

I've posted this information before....so it might be a rerun for some...

In the early 90s a guy advertised a YL-15 in Trade-A-Plane, listing only an address in Anchorage (IIRC). I replied but never heard back.
That may have been the plane noted in 1989.
I'd like to think it's still out there, and no one would have scrapped it since 1990 or so.

[Jack Cook]

Sam Richardson was looking at 2-3 disassembled ones in AK a couple years ago.
Probably still up there.

[The Inspector]

The airplane folded up and could be towed down the road tail first behind a jeep sort of like a backwards Taylor AEROCAR. It along with a couple others from other manufacturers lost out in the competetion to the CESSNA L-19. The observers seat swiveled around to face aft.