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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:VC-131D-CO Samaritan
    Last Military Serial:54-2820 USAF
    Construction Number:340-228
    Last Civil Registration:VH-TAA
    Compressed ID:Convair VC-131D-CO sn 54-2820 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Inc, Albion Park Rail, NSW

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1955

    Constructed as a VC-131D-CO by Convair at San Diego, CA.

    To General Dynamics Corporation with new c/r N8453H.

    17 February 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 54-2820.

    September 1979


    Photographer: George Mihalek
    Notes: United States Air Force Convair sits at BurkeLakefront Airport in Cleveland back in September of 1979

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona.

    February 1988

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number AACS0090.

    July 1992

    To Romanov Smirnow East Northport, NY with new c/r N43895.

    28 July 1992

    To Smirnow Robert, East Northport, NY keeping c/r N43895.

    31 July 1992

    Civil registration, N43895, cancelled.
    Exported to Bolivia.

    November 1992

    To Lineas Aereas Canedo with new c/r CP-2237.

    4 November 1992


    Photographer: Peter Garwood
    Notes: At Cochabamba, Bolivia

    From 1 July 1996 to September 1997

    To JORGE T. Lavadenz, Operated as Caribbean Flights with new c/r YV-914C.

    September 1997

    To Lineas Aereas Canedo with new c/r CP-2237.

    June 2001

    To ROVOS RAIL TOURS Operating as ROVOS AIR with new c/r ZS-OTE.

    From October 2001 to 2009

    To ROVOS RAIL TOURS opg as ROVOS AIR with new c/r ZS-ARV.

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    19 June 2012

    Ferry flight.
    To Wonderboom Airport - awaiting a sale.

    24 September 2014


    Photographer: John Yates
    Notes: 2014 photo at Wonderboom Airport in South Africa

    10 August 2016

    Ferry flight.
    Departure from Wonderboom, South Africa to Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

    10 August 2016


    Photographer: HARS / Convair Facebook
    Notes: Start of delivery flight from South Africa to Australia

    14 November 2016

    To Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Inc, Albion Park Rail, NSW with new c/r VH-TAA.

    21 October 2024


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Convair VH-TAA John Forrest under maintenance at its Australian homebase HARS Albion Park, NSW
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