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    Airframe Family: Pitcairn PA-39 Autogyro
    Latest Model:PA-39
    Construction Number:M98
    Last Civil Registration:N3908
    Compressed ID:Pitcairn PA-39 cn M98 cr N3908
    Latest Owner or Location:EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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    Dates

    Event

    1941

    Constructed as a PA-39.
    First PA-39 and not part of British order. Only surviving example of 7 built.

    To Pitcairn Aircraft Company, Willow Grove, PA with new c/r NC3908.
    Retained for tests.

    By 1971

    To Gerald L. Bruener, Orinca, CA with new c/r N3908.

    To Stephen Pitcairn keeping c/r N3908.
    Harold Pitcairns son.

    By July 2002

    Donated to the EAA AirVenture Museum along with other aircraft by Stephen Pitcairn.

    By July 2002

    To EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    Markings Applied: BW-830
    Marked as Royal Navy BW830.

    July 2002


    Photographer: Norm Jukes
    Notes: Photographed at Oshkosh, WI.

    24 September 2010


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: Pitcairn built only 6 examples of this autogiro for the British Air Ministry; of that handful, this is the sole survivor. Engine is a 7-cylinder Warner Super-Scarab 165D of 165 hp.

    July 2018


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Oshkosh

    In the inventory of EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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