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    Airframe Family: Pitts Special
    Latest Model:S-1 Special
    Construction Number:7 0280
    Last Civil Registration:C-GURD
    Compressed ID:Pitts S-1 cn 7 0280 cr C-GURD
    Latest Owner or Location:Ryan Arsenault, Calgary, AB

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    Dates

    Event

    1983

    Constructed as a S-1.
    Pitts PITTS S1 7 0280

    Circa 1983

    To David Gurd with new c/r C-GURD.

    From Unknown to 29 May 1992

    To Larry Ernewein keeping c/r C-GURD.

    2 September 1990


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: At Brandon, Manitoba

    From 23 June 1992 to 14 February 1997

    To Jack Murphy keeping c/r C-GURD.

    From 27 March 1997 to 8 August 2017

    To Kirk Calvert Aerobatics, Saint Albert, AB keeping c/r C-GURD.

    8 August 2017

    To Anthony R Kasper, Calgary, AB keeping c/r C-GURD.

    28 September 2019

    Civil registration, C-GURD, cancelled.

    17 November 2020

    To Ryan Arsenault, Calgary, AB with new c/r C-GURD.
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