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    Airframe Family: Pitcairn-Cierva PCA-2 / PCA-3 / P-21 / OP-1 / OP-2 Auotgiro
    Latest Model:PCA-2
    Construction Number:B-27
    Last Civil Registration:NC11609
    Compressed ID:Pitcairn-Cierva PCA-2 cn B-27 cr NC...
    Latest Owner or Location:EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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    Dates

    Event

    June 1931

    Constructed as a PCA-2.

    To Champion Spark Plug Company with new c/r NC11609.

    Markings Applied: Miss Champion

    1932

    Retired by the Champion Spark Plug Company.

    To Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL.
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    After 1945

    Transferred to a small museum in New Jersey.

    1982

    Recovered.
    Removed from a barn by Steve Pitcairn, the son of Harold Pitcairn.

    Restored.

    1986

    Participated in the fly-in at Oshkosh.

    September 2005

    To EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    30 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: In the EAA Museum at Oshkosh

    March 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: EAA AirVenture Museum

    March 2016


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: EAA AirVenture Museum

    To EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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