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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-990 Coronado
    Latest Model:CV-990-30A-5
    Construction Number:29
    Last Civil Registration:N810NA
    Latest Owner or Location:Mojave Airport, Mojave, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1962

    Constructed as a CV-990-30A-5.

    11 May 1962

    To American Airlines with new c/r N5617.
    Operated with markings: 617

    2 February 1968

    To Modern Air Transport keeping c/r N5617.
    Markings added: Berliner Bear

    8 May 1975

    To NASA with new c/r N710NA.

    6 June 1975


    Photographer: Tom Irwin
    Notes: Not sure on the exact date. I worked on it when I was young

    1983

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Pinal Air Park, Marana, AZ.

    12 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo - in storage at Pinal Air Park, Marana, Arizona

    9 October 1987


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1987 photo at Pinal Air Park, Marana, Arizona

    To NASA with new c/r N810NA.

    To Mojave Airport, Mojave, CA.
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    July 1992


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (public domain)

    7 April 1993


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (public domain)

    2008


    Photographer: Andy West

    13 June 2011

    Civil registration, N810NA, cancelled.

    26 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Preserved the entrance to Mojave Airport, California

    26 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Preserved at the entrance to Mojave Airport, California

    12 March 2014

    2 March 2019


    Photographer: Jim Leslie
    Notes: Photographed at the entrance to Mojave Airport on 02 March 2019

    2 March 2019


    Photographer: Jim Leslie


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood

    Internet Sources
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

    Individual Contributors
    Terry Fletcher
    Andy West

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