Pheasant Aircraft Company

In 1927, flight school operator Lee R. Briggs had mobilized Memphis, Missouri community members to incorporate a company for aircraft production.

Wittman and convinced investor Adolf Bechaud to move the company to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1929.

[4] The biplane eventually was sold to the Northern Aero Company flight school after the stock market crash.

[3] One example of a Pheasant H-10 is owned by the Experimental Aircraft Association and is on display in the EAA AirVenture Museum.

040°27′53″N 092°10′17″W / 40.46472°N 92.17139°W / 40.46472; -92.17139 and a volunteer effort in April 2012 accomplished purchasing a surviving Pheasant and returned it to the city of its manufacture.

A Pheasant Flight Engine
G-CASR. The "Red Pheasant". Western Development Museum, Moose Jaw. Built in Memphis, Missouri in 1927. Flown to Canada in 1928. Flew first airmail out of Prince Albert in 1931.