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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:VC-131D-CO Samaritan
    Last Military Serial:54-2823 USAF
    Construction Number:340-234
    Last Civil Registration:C-GYSK
    Latest Owner or Location:Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (air Operations), La Ronge, SK

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    Constructed as a VC-131D-CO by Convair at San Diego, CA.

    To unknown owner with c/r N8456H.

    To Convair A Division of General Dynamics Corp, Dan Diego, CA with new c/r N8456H (340, 234).

    Circa 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 54-2823.

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

    Transferred to a museum.

    To International Trading Co of Yukon Inc, Oklahoma City, OK with new c/r N131SF (C-131D, 54-2823).

    16 August 1956

    Civil registration, N8456H, cancelled.

    30 April 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: With Big-Sky-Country titles at AMARC, Tucson, AZ

    7 September 2005

    To International Trading Co of Yukon Inc, Oklahoma City, OK with new c/r N131SF.

    15 August 2006

    Civil registration, N131SF, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    Circa 9 November 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for C-GYSK (340, 234) issued.

    9 November 2006

    To Province of Saskatchewan, Ministry of The Environment, La Ronge, SK with new c/r C-GYSK.

    1 December 2006

    To Province of Saskatchewan, La Ronge, SK keeping c/r C-GYSK.

    19 December 2007

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GYSK.

    By 23 October 2009

    Civil registration, N131SF, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GYSK.

    19 July 2018


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Great Falls International Airport, Montana.

    28 March 2020

    To Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (air Operations), La Ronge, SK keeping c/r C-GYSK.


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