Abstract. Continuing the earlier research [Fund. Math. 129 (1988) and 149 (1996)] we give some information about extending automorphisms of models of PA to cofinal extensions.In recent work on automorphisms of recursively saturated models of PA two themes stand out. One is the classification of conjugacy classes of single automorphisms, the other is the classification of subgroups of the automorphism group. Many results in both areas depend on information on how automorphisms of a recursively saturated model can be extended from the model to an elementary extension.Let M be a countable model of Peano Arithmetic, PA, and let N be its cofinal extension. If f is an automorphism of M, g is an automorphism of N and f ⊆ g, then for each a ∈ N , there is b ∈ N such that f (M ∩ a) = M ∩ b. This b is, of course, g(a). Here and elsewhere in the paper we identify elements of models of PA with the sets they code. If for each a ∈ N , there is b ∈ N such that f (M ∩ a) = M ∩ b, we say that f sends coded sets to coded sets. Thus, if f has an extension to an automorphism of N , then both f and f −1 send coded sets to coded ones. We showed in [9] that if M and N are countable and recursively saturated, N is an end elementary extension of M, M = inf{(a) n : n < ω} for all a ∈ N , and f is an automorphism of M such that f and f −1 send coded sets to coded ones, then f can be extended to an automorphism of M. In [10] we showed that the restriction on the type of end extension in the above result is essential. This, more or less, settles the problem of extending automorphisms of recursively saturated models to elementary end extensions. In [10] we considered extendability of automorphisms to cofinal extensions. This is a harder problem.2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 03C62, 03C50.