Crop Dusters After the war, Delta acquired surplus military Boeing Stearman PT-17 planes and converted them for crop-dusting work Boeing Stearmans gradually replaced the older Huff Daland Dusters
Boeing-Stearman Model 75 - Wikipedia After the conflict was over, thousands of surplus aircraft were sold on the civilian market In the immediate postwar years, they became popular as crop dusters and sports planes, and for aerobatic and wing walking use in air shows
Crop Dusters In the latter 1930s, towards the end of the Stearman's mail-carrying days, the aircraft became extremely popular for crop dusting Delta used six of these early Stearmans for dusting work
Agricultural aircraft - Wikipedia Crop dusting with insecticides began in the 1920s in the United States The first widely used agricultural aircraft were converted war-surplus biplanes, such as the De Havilland Tiger Moth and Stearman
Crop Duster – First Aero Squadron Foundation ™ Most every Air Show had at least one Stearman with a Twin Wasp 450 HP engine hanging up front to give extraordinarily capabilities at aerobatics Crop dusters across the globe still use this WWII biplane as their principal aerial applicator
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