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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:141025 USN
    Construction Number:340-308
    Last Civil Registration:VH-EAQ
    Compressed ID:Convair C-131F sn 141025 USN cn 340...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Inc

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R4Y-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 141025.

    1962

    Redesignated as C-131F.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 141025.

    Civil registration N340CV reserved but not taken up.

    18 September 1984

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1G0020.

    Markings Applied: 025, 141025

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona.

    March 2002

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    View the Location Dossier

    30 April 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: R4Y-1 at the Pima Air Museum, Tucson, AZ

    2006

    To Historical Aircraft Restoration Society.
    Sold to the society via EBay.

    12 January 2006

    To Gregory Ackman, Camden, NSW with new c/r VH-EAQ.

    12 January 2006

    Operated by Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Inc.

    15 October 2007

    Civil registration N340CV reserved.

    30 April 2011

    Civil registration, N340CV, cancelled.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    28 June 2012

    To Gregory Ackman, Camden, NSW keeping c/r VH-EAQ.

    2 July 2012

    Operated by Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Inc.

    12 November 2012


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy
    Notes: Still here. Its supposed to fly to Australia at some point.

    1 May 2020

    Civil registration, VH-EAQ, cancelled.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Australian Government, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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