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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:CV-240-0
    Construction Number:240-086
    Last Civil Registration:N75YD
    Latest Owner or Location:Modular Steel Constructions Ltd

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    Dates

    Event

    1948

    Constructed as a CV-240-0.

    5 August 1948

    To American Airlines with c/r NC94242.
    Operated with markings: Flagship Joplin

    To American Airlines with c/r N94242.
    Operated with markings: Flagship Mackinac Island

    29 December 1954


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: Arriving into Chicago Midway from the west this Convair i,n a snowstorm, on one-engine belly landed and skidded onto the grass/snow.

    15 June 1959

    To The Presidential-Ayer Corporation with c/r N240P.

    30 January 1967

    To Barnwell Drilling Company with c/r N75Y.

    17 May 1974

    To Modular Steel Constructions Ltd with c/r N75YD.

    14 November 1977

    Civil registration, N75YD, cancelled.

    In derelict condition.

    4 February 2017

    Civil registration, N75YD, cancelled.
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