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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:C-131F Samaritan
    Last Military Serial:141001 USN
    Construction Number:340-284
    Last Civil Registration:N157JR
    Latest Owner or Location:Rhoades International, Inc

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R4Y-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 141001.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as C-131F.

    18 September 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 141001.

    24 March 1986

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1G0025.

    November 1992

    To National Museum of Naval Aviation with new c/r N5251B.

    1993

    To Trans-Air-Link Corporation keeping c/r N5251B.

    26 January 1994

    To Trans-Air-Link Corporation with new c/r N820TA.

    From January 1995 to Circa 2007

    To Rhoades International, Inc with new c/r N157JR.

    Withdrawn from use.

    1 May 2002


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2002 photo in Rhoades Int livery at Columbus, Indiana

    2 October 2007

    Civil registration, N157JR, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    18 June 2009


    Photographer: John Olafson
    Notes: At Kelowna
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