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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:C-131A Samaritan
    Last Military Serial:5796 USCG
    Construction Number:53-16
    Last Civil Registration:HP-1614
    Compressed ID:Convair C-131A sn 5796 USCG cn 53-1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tocumen International Airport, Ciudad de Panama (Panama City), Panama

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    Dates

    Event

    1952

    Constructed as a C-131A.

    Circa 1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-5796.

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CS011.

    Redesignated as HC-131A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 5796.

    2 April 1976

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 430014.

    Redesignated as C-131A.

    To unknown owner with c/r N3984A.

    September 1984

    To University of Washington with new c/r N327UW.

    2 August 2002

    To Matata USA Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N327UW.

    15 November 2002


    Photographer: Clive Hindmarch
    Notes: 2002 photo of Convair climbing away from Los Angeles

    4 October 2006

    Civil registration, N327UW, cancelled.
    Exported to Panama.

    November 2006

    To unknown owner with c/r HP-1614.

    Based at Tocumen International Airport, Ciudad de Panama (Panama City), Panama.
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    2011


    Photographer: David Osborn
    Notes: At Tocumen Interantional Airport, Panama City
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