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    Airframe Family: Brewster F2A Buffalo
    Latest Model:B-239 Buffalo
    Last Military Serial:BW-372 FiAF
    Construction Number:41
    Compressed ID:Brewster B-239 sn BW-372 FiAF cn 41...
    Latest Owner or Location:Finnish Air Force Museum, Jyvaskyla, Tikkaksoki, Lansi-Suomi

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-239.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Finnish Air Force with s/n BW-372.

    Circa 1998


    Photographer: Vladmir Prytkov
    Notes: Vladmir Prytkov was responsible for uplifting the Brewster B-239 from a lake in Russian Kereila in 1998 and photographed the historic recovery

    24 November 1998

    Transported by air.
    Moved from the recovery site in Russia to Shannon, Ireland.

    18 November 2000

    To Historic Aircraft, Richmond, BC.

    18 November 2000

    Offered for sale by Historic Aircraft.

    To Finnish Air Force Museum, Jyvaskyla, Tikkaksoki, Lansi-Suomi.
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    After 2009


    Photographer: Unknown / Wikipedia
    Notes: Uncredited photo of the recovered Brewster B-239 in a Museum - probably in Finland

    6 August 2009


    Photographer: Gary Maisack
    Notes: BW-372 at Finnish Air Force Museum, Tikkakoski, Finland
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