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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:CV-580
    Construction Number:340-151
    Last Civil Registration:C-FKFZ
    Latest Owner or Location:Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd, Kelowna, BC

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    Dates

    Event

    1954

    Constructed as a CV-340-54.

    To unknown owner with c/r N11151.

    Converted to a CV-440.

    Circa 17 August 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5823 (340, 151) issued.

    17 August 1970

    To Aspen Airways Inc, Denver, CO with new c/r N5823.

    17 January 1992

    Civil registration, N5823, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    Converted to a CV-580.

    4 March 1993

    To Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd, Kelowna, BC with new c/r C-FKFZ.

    27 September 1995

    To Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd, Kelowna, BC keeping c/r C-FKFZ.

    29 July 2011


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Vancouver Int. with Purolator titles

    7 April 2015

    Civil registration, C-FKFZ, cancelled.

    3 June 2015


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 2015 photo at Victoria. BC

    31 July 2015

    To Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd, Kelowna, BC with new c/r C-FKFZ.

    10 September 2015

    To Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd, Kelowna, BC keeping c/r C-FKFZ.

    28 October 2015

    Civil registration, C-FKFZ, cancelled.

    29 July 2016


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: Kelowna Flightcraft CV-580 back to home base in Kelowna on a glorious summer morning

    19 February 2018

    To Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd, Kelowna, BC with new c/r C-FKFZ.

    19 February 2018

    To unknown owner with c/r C-FKFZ.


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