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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:340-069
    Last Civil Registration:N569JA
    Latest Owner or Location:Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a CV-340-31.

    22 May 1953

    To United Air Lines with new c/r N73132.
    Operated with markings: Mainliner Washington

    30 April 1962

    To Alaska Airlines keeping c/r N73132.

    11 June 1963

    To Frontier Airlines keeping c/r N73132.
    Markings added: Sunliner Taos

    30 December 1965

    Converted to a CV-580.

    30 August 1968

    Certificate of airworthiness for N569JA (340-31, 69) issued.

    4 January 1980

    To Aspen Airways keeping c/r N73132.


    Photographer: William T. Larkins

    August 1980

    To ERA Helicopters with new c/r N569JA.

    1 January 1982

    To Era Aviation Inc, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N569JA.

    21 October 1997


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1997 photo at Winnipeg - Making a quick pit stop is this Alaska based ERA Aviation Convair 580. Originally built for United Airlines as Convair 340 in 1953, it was broken up for parts at Kelowna/BC in 2003

    19 June 2003

    Civil registration, N569JA, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    Withdrawn from use.

    Circa July 2003

    To Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter.
    Acquired for spare parts only - never registered.
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     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Terry Fletcher
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