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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:340-019
    Last Civil Registration:N581HG
    Compressed ID:Convair CV-580 cn 340-019 cr N581HG...
    Latest Owner or Location:World Aviation Services, Miami, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CV-340-31.

    23 November 1952

    To United Air Lines with new c/r N73115.
    Operated with markings: Mainliner San Diego

    Circa April 1960

    Converted to a CV-540.

    13 September 1960

    To Allegheney Airlines with new c/r N541Z.

    By 27 June 1962

    Converted to a CV-440.

    9 July 1962

    To Allegheney Airlines keeping c/r N541Z.

    20 December 1962

    Assigned civil registration: N8425H {1}

    19 August 1965

    Assigned civil registration: N5805

    By 15 October 1965

    Converted to a CV-580.

    20 October 1965

    To Allegheney Airlines keeping c/r N5805.

    20 August 1970

    To World Aviation Services, Miami, FL with new c/r N581HG.

    From 1976 to 1986

    To Sea Airmotive, AK with new c/r N5805.

    September 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Sea Airmotive Inc at Anchorage in September 1979 operated a mixed fleet of floatplanes, Convair 580s and Caribous to remoteAlaskan communities. Their ex Allegheny Airlines CV-580 N5805 was parked on the sloping ramp to Lake Hood

    6 May 1983

    To World Aviation Services, Miami, FL with new c/r N581HG.

    To Seair Alaska Airlines, AK keeping c/r N5805.

    Circa 1988

    To Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter with new c/r C-GTEM (340, 19).

    8 September 1989


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1989 photo at Winnipeg - Originally built for United Als in 1952 as a piston Convair 340, later converted to turbo 580 and seen here in cargo service with the short-lived Tempus Air

    Circa February 1990

    To Canair Cargo keeping c/r C-GTEM.

    October 1992


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Vancouver, B.C.

    Circa 1997


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1997 photo taken at Opa Locka Airport, Florida

    26 March 1999

    To World Aviation Services with new c/r N581HG.

    26 March 1999

    To World Aviation Services, Miami, FL keeping c/r N581HG.


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Photo taken in the Cargo area of Toronto Int Airport

    Scrapped.

    29 May 2008

    Civil registration, N581HG, cancelled.


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    Terry Fletcher

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