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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:CV-580F
    Construction Number:340-135
    Last Civil Registration:ZS-SKK
    Latest Owner or Location:LAC SkyCongo

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a CV-340-48.

    14 December 1953

    To Royal Dutch Airlines-KLM with c/r PJ-CVB {1}.

    31 August 1954

    To Royal Dutch Airlines-KLM with c/r PH-CGK.

    Converted to a CV-440.

    January 1960

    To Lund Aviation with c/r CF-ECS {2}.

    April 1962

    Converted to a CV-580F.

    To Eastern Canada Stevedore.

    21 July 1964

    To Union Oil Company of California with c/r N7600 {2}.

    14 January 1966

    To Allegheny Airlines with c/r N5812 {1}.

    18 July 1981

    To Interstate Airline with c/r N582PL.

    February 1987

    To Corporate Air with c/r N536SA (340, 135).

    March 1987


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: At Chicago Midway

    October 1987

    To European Air Transport with c/r OO-DHD.

    31 March 1988

    Civil registration, N536SA, cancelled.

    To DHL Worldwide Courier.

    December 1996

    To Swiftair with c/r EC-GKH.

    November 2005

    To LAC SkyCongo with c/r ZS-SKK.
    Operating for DHL.

    Withdrawn from use.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Spanish Register of Civil Aircraft Since 1920 by Jose Ramon Valero
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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