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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:JC-131B Samaritan
    Last Military Serial:53-7802 USAF
    Construction Number:340-254
    Last Civil Registration:N404TC
    Latest Owner or Location:Creek Side Landing Airport, Eighty Eight, Kentucky

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-131B.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-7802.

    Redesignated as JC-131B.

    July 1992

    To Air Freight International with c/r N43944.

    December 1992

    To Central Air Services.

    September 1995


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Avra Valley, AZ

    10 March 2001

    To N404TC Inc, Wilmington, DE with c/r N404TC.

    Circa 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for N404TC (C-131B, 53-7802) issued.

    2008

    To R F. Diver, Crossroads, TX with c/r N404TC.

    14 January 2009

    Civil registration, N404TC, cancelled.
    Cancelled.

    To Gainesville Municipal Airport, Gainesville, TX.
    View the Location Dossier

    To Creek Side Landing Airport, Eighty Eight, KY.
    Nose only survives.
    View the Location Dossier


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    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood

    Individual Contributors
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