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Gainesville man refurbishes World War II biplane
Boeing-Stearman Kaydet was used to train pilots
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John Coe stores his 1941 Stearman biplane in a hangar at the Jackson County airport. The “buzz numbers” are Coe’s birth month and year. - photo by NAT GURLEY
John Coe still looks up to the sky when he hears a plane pass overhead. The 67-year-old Gainesville man has been “consumed” by airplanes since he was a child. His love affair with aviation began after his father, a doctor, took him along on a flight lesson.