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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:340-121
    Last Civil Registration:N905GA
    Compressed ID:Convair CV-580 cn 340-121 cr N905GA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Race Coast Aviation Llc, Port Orange, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CV-340-48.

    To unknown owner with c/r PH-TGH.

    To unknown owner with c/r PH-CGH.

    Converted to a CV-440.

    To unknown owner with c/r PH-CGH.

    To unknown owner with c/r N4407.

    To unknown owner with c/r N5824.

    Converted to a CV-580.

    To unknown owner with c/r N5824.

    By 30 December 1980

    To unknown owner with c/r N531SA.

    30 December 1980

    Involved in an incident.
    Summarized NTSB narrative from report number ATL81IA032: There were no fatalities. Incident occurred at 22:22 hours. There was minor damage. Incident occurred at the Norfolk International Airport, Norfolk, VA. The flight departed from Raleigh, NC, stopping at Baltimore, MD, on the way to Norfolk, VA. The airframe failed in flight during the initial climb. Report remarks include: Remarks- aircraft pitched-up without control input. Left elev free-floating, torquetube rivets sheared...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    Civil registration C-FHEM reserved but not taken up.

    To unknown owner with c/r C-GJTU.

    To unknown owner with c/r C-FMGC.

    Circa 1997


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Photo at Toronto International - circa 1997

    9 July 1998

    To RPG Airlift Inc DBA, Pompano Beach, FL with new c/r N905GA.

    15 August 1999


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Willow Run Airport, MI

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Daytona Beach Regional Airport, Daytona Beach, FL.
    View the Location Dossier

    Withdrawn from use.

    16 February 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Daytona International Airport in Florida.

    17 March 2014

    To Race Coast Aviation Llc, Port Orange, FL keeping c/r N905GA.

    7 July 2015

    Civil registration, N905GA, cancelled.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Transportation Safety Board
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