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    Airframe Family: Piper PT-1
    Latest Model:PT-1
    Construction Number:1
    Last Civil Registration:N4300
    Compressed ID:Piper PT-1 cn 1 cr N4300
    Latest Owner or Location:Piper Aviation Museum, William T. Piper Memorial Airport (LHV), Lock Haven, Pennsylvania

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as a PT-1.
    Built at Lock Haven, PA and designed as a low-cost trainer for the USAAF.

    1943

    To Piper Aircraft Company, Lock Haven, PA with new c/r NX4300.

    14 March 1943

    First flight.

    1943

    Ferry flight.
    Ferried to Wright Field, OH for evalation.

    1943

    Low cost trainer program cancelled, aircraft was returned to Piper.

    Circa 1946

    To unknown owner with c/r NC4300.

    Passed through several unknown owners.

    1954

    Damaged.
    Suffered substantial damage when belly-landed.

    From 1954 to 1977

    Placed in storage un-restored.

    1977

    To Tom Wathen, Van Nuys, CA with new c/r N4300.

    From 1977 to 1979

    Restored.

    29 July 1979


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1979 photo at Oshkosh WI

    26 October 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX4300 (PT1, PT-1) issued.

    By 1983

    Loaned to EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    8 August 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Displayed at the EAA Air Venture Museum, Oshkosh, WI

    8 August 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Displayed at the EAA Air Venture Museum, Oshkosh, WI

    21 September 1993

    To EAA Aviation Foundation Inc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N4300.
    Donated by Tom Wathen.

    By 2000

    To Piper Aviation Museum, Lock Haven, PA keeping c/r N4300.
    Traded for a Piper PA-15.

    From By 2000 to 2009

    Restored.
    At Lock Haven, PA.

    4 December 2006

    To Piper Aviation Museum Foundation, Lock Haven, PA keeping c/r N4300.

    2009

    Placed on display with Piper Aviation Museum, William T. Piper Memorial Airport (LHV), Lock Haven, PA.
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    4 November 2012


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: This rarity is now at the Piper Aviation Museum; it resided at the EAA AirVenture Museum. The plane was built in 1943.
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