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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:T-29B Samaritan
    Last Military Serial:51-7898 USAF
    Construction Number:240-310
    Last Civil Registration:LN-KLT
    Compressed ID:Convair T-29B sn 51-7898 USAF cn 24...
    Latest Owner or Location:B. Mast Boom

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a T-29B.

    12 May 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-7898.

    6 March 1962

    To Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC with new c/r N406E.

    1963

    To U. S. Army Corps of Engineers with new c/r N40CE.

    September 1963


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: Operating for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers under the civil registration N40CE. At San Francisco in Sept 1963.

    1966

    To U. S. Army Corps of Engineers with new c/r N406E.

    March 1967

    To Polaris Air Transport with new c/r LN-KLT.
    Operated with markings: Castor

    5 April 1967

    Civil registration, N406E, cancelled.

    June 1968

    Withdrawn from use.
    And stored at.Woensdrecht, Netherlands.

    21 March 1975

    To B. Mast Boom.

    1976

    Scrapped.
    Broken up at Bergen-op-Zoom, Netherlands.

    29 February 1980


    Photographer: Paul Hooper
    Notes: Phographed at Woensdrecht, NL

    29 February 1980


    Photographer: Paul Hooper
    Notes: Photographed at Woensdrecht, NL.
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