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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:CV-580
    Construction Number:440-366
    Last Civil Registration:N73163
    Compressed ID:Convair CV-580 cn 440-366 cr N73163...
    Latest Owner or Location:JBQ Aviation Corporation

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a CV-440-12.

    5 October 1956

    To Sabena with new c/r OO-SCO.

    10 November 1967

    To Frontier Airlines with new c/r N73163.

    March 1968

    Converted to a CV-580.

    27 March 1968

    Certificate of airworthiness for N73163 (580, 366) issued.

    28 June 1983

    To Frontier Commuter keeping c/r N73163.

    1 August 1985

    To Metroflight keeping c/r N73163.

    5 August 1988

    To Renown Aviation keeping c/r N73163.

    From 5 August 1988 to March 1989

    Leased to Laredo Air.

    6 December 1991


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Opa Locka, Florida

    January 1995

    To JBQ Aviation Corporation keeping c/r N73163.
    Leased to Renown Aviation.

    1995


    Photographer: Mark Fidler
    Notes: Fort Lauderdale

    3 October 2005

    To unknown owner with c/r N73163.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Justin, TX.

    16 August 2013

    Civil registration, N73163, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Justin, TX.
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     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
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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
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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