Where is Amelia Earharts Beech-nut Gyroplane?
Well it wasn’t really hers-it belonged to beech-nut. She just flew it for them for promotional (both hers and theirs) purposes. Sort of a lease. She actually flew three Pitcairn PCA-2 autogyros having crashed the first two. For simplicity’s sake I will assume that you’re looking for the first one registered as NC10780. After being repaired it was eventually sold to some cat in Norway, where it was reported as damaged beyond repair april of 1940. That much is known. What remains unknown is how it was damaged. Norway was invaded by by germany that month, in fact paratroops landed at Oslo-where the former beech-nut autogyro current owner flew from. I note that there is more then one aircraft listed as damaged beyond repair in oslo on that day. Based on that I’d say it was caught up in the war and while not destroyed outright was damaged and then almost certainly scrapped.
