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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:240-147
    Last Civil Registration:N1022C
    Compressed ID:Convair CV-240-0 cn 240-147 cr N102...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of Commercial Aviation Inc, Forest Park, GA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CV-240-0.

    15 February 1949

    First flight.

    To unknown owner with c/r N94270.

    To unknown owner with c/r N94269 {2}.

    27 February 1949

    Loaned to American Airlines.
    Markings changed to: FLAGSHIP SCRANTON

    3 November 1959

    To Mowhawk Airlines with new c/r N1022C.
    Operated with markings: AIRCHIEF NARRAGANSETT

    8 October 1965

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1022C (240, 147) issued.

    January 1967

    To Fairchild-Hillier Corporation keeping c/r N1022C.

    Circa 1968

    To Carco Aviation keeping c/r N1022C.

    March 1972

    To Ralph Johnson keeping c/r N1022C.

    Circa 1976

    To Purchased By Barnstormers Inc keeping c/r N1022C.

    July 1977

    To Onyx Aviation keeping c/r N1022C.

    1980

    To Trans Central Leasing with new c/r TI-AOC.

    December 1981

    To Trans Florida Airlines with new c/r N2642Z.

    3 March 1982

    To Trans Florida Airlines Inc, Daytona Beach, FL with new c/r N1022C.

    January 1989


    Photographer: John Meneely
    Notes: Daytona, FL

    29 March 1994

    To Bahama Air Ferries Inc, Daytona Beach, FL keeping c/r N1022C.

    Withdrawn from use. and stored at Daytona Beach.

    14 July 2007


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Convair 240 N1022C in the livery of Trans Florida at Daytona Beach

    1 January 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1022C (240, 147) issued.

    25 June 2008

    To US Airline Industry Museum Foundation Inc, Zellwood, FL keeping c/r N1022C.

    To Daytona Beach Regional Airport, Daytona Beach, FL.
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    Ferry flight.
    Moved from Daytona Beach to Apopka FL to form the centre piece of the US Airline Industry Museum. The aircraft is at Apopka wearing Pan Am tail colours.

    4 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo at Apopka FL - in (false) Pan Am colours, but now with registration painted out

    13 November 2013

    To unknown owner with c/r N1022C.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Forest Park, GA.

    23 January 2014

    To National Museum of Commercial Aviation Inc, Forest Park, GA keeping c/r N1022C.

    The National Museum of Commercial Aviation became the new owners of this special Convair 240 on August 1st, 2013. She remains at Apopka airport until fundraising efforts support her dismantling and movement to Atlanta, where she will be brought back to her Mohawk splendor and displayed inside the first phase hangar of the new museum.

    Withdrawn from use.

    By 17 May 2014


    Photographer: Duncan Kirk

    3 October 2017

    To unknown owner with c/r N1022C.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Las Vegas, NV.

    18 August 2018

    To unknown owner with c/r N1022C.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Las Vegas, NV.


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    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

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    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger

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