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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:C-131B Samaritan
    Last Military Serial:53-7813 USAF
    Construction Number:340-265
    Last Civil Registration:N7813B
    Compressed ID:Convair C-131B sn 53-7813 USAF cn 3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aviones Inc, Wilmington, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-131B.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-7813.

    By September 1977

    Transferred to 123D FIS, 142D FIG, Oregon ANG, Portland International Airport, OR.

    25 September 1977


    Photographer: Geoffrey B. Rhodes

    1 May 1983

    To I F L Group Inc, Waterford, MI with new c/r N7813B.

    22 October 1983


    Photographer: Dan Stijovich
    Notes: At the 1983 Norton AFB Open House

    By October 1989

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

    To unknown owner with c/r N7813B.

    19 August 1991

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7813B (340, 265) issued.

    3 August 2007

    To Ifl Group Inc, Waterford, MI with new c/r N7813B.

    Based at Oakland County International Airport, Pontiac, MI.
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    Withdrawn from use.

    29 August 2017

    To unknown owner with c/r N7813B.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Belleville, MI.

    2 August 2018

    To unknown owner with c/r N7813B.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Belleville, MI.

    1 January 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7813B (340, 265) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2019

    To Aviones Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N7813B.
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