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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-188 / P-3 / CP-140
    Latest Model:L-188C Electra
    Construction Number:1130
    Last Civil Registration:C-FLXT
    Compressed ID:Lockheed L-188C cn 1130 cr C-FLXT
    Latest Owner or Location:CFB Penhold (formerly), Red Deer, Alberta

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    Dates

    Event

    1960

    Constructed as a L-188C.

    Civil registration N181H {1} reserved but not taken up.
    For Capital Airlines.

    From July 1960 to 26 January 1961

    To United States Navy with new c/r N181H {1}.
    On lease.

    31 January 1962

    To Pacific Southwest Airlines with new c/r N175PS.

    29 February 1968

    To King Resources Company with new c/r N595KR.

    18 May 1973

    Leased to National Centre for Atmospheric Research.

    1 December 1975

    To National Center for Atmospheric Research with new c/r N308D.

    10 August 1976

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR308D (188C, 1130) issued.

    Circa 1978


    Photographer: SMSGT. Dana Nichols (USAF ret.) via Fargo Air Museum
    Notes: Photo taken at Elmendorf AFB, AK

    23 June 2002


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: This is Electra N308D in Westerns yard(Tucson). It came here from AMARC, but as it is not a type used by the military, I wondered what it was doing there? Turns out it used to fly for the US Navy back in 1961, as N181H.

    5 December 2003

    To Neptune Aviation Services Inc, Missoula, MT keeping c/r N308D.

    To Neptune Aviation, Missoula International Airport, Missoula, MT.
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    3 November 2006

    Civil registration, N308D, cancelled.

    14 December 2006

    To Air Spray (1967) Ltd, Edmonton, AB with new c/r C-FLXT.

    By 12 May 2010

    Operated as fire service #481.

    12 May 2010


    Photographer: David Osborn
    Notes: At Red Deer Regional Airport

    13 March 2012

    To Air Spray (1967) Ltd, Penhold, AB keeping c/r C-FLXT.
    Markings added: 481

    Based at CFB Penhold (formerly), Red Deer, AB.
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