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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:CV-440
    Construction Number:340-063
    Last Civil Registration:N138CA
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Museum, Chino, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CV-340-41.

    To unknown owner with c/r N3445.

    To unknown owner with c/r I-DOGI.

    24 April 1953

    To Alitalia with new c/r I-DOGI.

    Converted to a CV-440.

    To unknown owner with c/r I-DOGI.

    To unknown owner with c/r OH-LRG.

    29 March 1961

    To Finnair with new c/r OH-LRG.

    To unknown owner with c/r N3756Z.

    To unknown owner with c/r N138CA.

    18 August 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N138CA (340, 63) issued.

    19 August 1970

    To Air Museum, Chino, CA with new c/r N138CA.

    Circa March 1980

    To Cosmopolitan Airways with new c/r N3756Z.

    26 June 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for N138CA (340, 63) issued.

    Circa December 1981

    Assigned civil registration: N138CA

    In the inventory of Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    29 October 1996

    To Air Museum, Chino, CA with new c/r N138CA.

    17 January 2003

    Civil registration, N138CA, cancelled.

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Planes of Fame Museum, Chino, California

    Scrapped.

    Transferred to a museum.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Terry Fletcher
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