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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:CV-580
    Last Military Serial:145966 USN
    Construction Number:440-507
    Last Civil Registration:C-GYXC
    Compressed ID:Convair CV-580 sn 145966 USN cn 440...
    Latest Owner or Location:Conair Group Inc (Conair Aviation), Abbotsford, BC

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    Dates

    Event

    1959

    Constructed as a R4Y-2T.

    1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 145966.
    Not taken up.

    Converted to a CV-440-62.

    November 1959

    To General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI with new c/r N5124.


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: At Chicago Midway

    1960

    Converted to a CV-580.

    27 April 1960

    To General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI with new c/r N8124.

    Circa 15 August 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8124 (440, 507) issued.

    To unknown owner with c/r N8124.

    1 April 1996

    Civil registration, N8124, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    April 1996

    To Cypress Jetprop Charter with new c/r C-GTTE.

    June 1996


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: Convair CV-580 - Cypress Airlines (Cypress Jetprop Charter Inc.)in June 1996

    March 1998

    To King Solomon Airways with new c/r ZK-KSA.

    2003

    To Pionair keeping c/r ZK-KSA.

    10 April 2006

    To Pionair Australia Pty Ltd, Condell Park, NSW with new c/r VH-PDV.

    10 April 2006

    To Pionair Australia Pty Ltd, Bankstown Airport, NSW with new c/r VH-PDV.

    10 April 2006

    To Pionair Australia Pty Ltd, Condell Park, NSW keeping c/r VH-PDV.

    10 August 2009

    Civil registration, VH-PDV, cancelled.

    1 September 2009

    To Conair Group Inc (Conair Aviation), Abbotsford, BC with new c/r C-GYXC (440, 507).

    Operated as fire service #442.

    27 May 2021

    Civil registration, C-GYXC, cancelled.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Australian Government, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
    California News Feed
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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