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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:CV-580
    Construction Number:440-381
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-CIF
    Compressed ID:Convair CV-580 cn 440-381 cr ZK-CIF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Chathams Limited, Chatham Islands

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a CV-440-12.

    10 December 1956

    To Sabena-Belgium with new c/r OO-SCT.

    6 May 1968

    To Frontier Airlines with new c/r N73167.

    September 1968

    Converted to a CV-580.

    9 September 1968

    Certificate of airworthiness for N566EA (440, 381) issued.

    29 June 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo taken at Denver Stapleton Airport

    January 1986

    To Metroflight keeping c/r N73167.

    7 August 1987

    To SAAB Aircraft of America keeping c/r N73167.

    3 May 1989

    To ERA Jet Alaska keeping c/r N73167.

    26 May 1989

    To ERA Aviation Inc, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N566EA.

    December 2001


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: At Chicago Midway Airport

    29 September 2005

    Civil registration, N566EA, cancelled.
    Exported to New Zealand.

    Based at Air Chathams, Auckland International Airport (north side), Auckland, Auckland, North Island.
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    To Air Chathams Limited, Chatham Islands with new c/r ZK-CIF (Allison Convair 440/580, 381).

    7 February 2007


    Photographer: Bluebus
    Notes: 2007 photo at Wellington, New Zealand

    1 January 2009

    Certificate of airworthiness for N566EA (440, 381) issued.

    6 January 2009


    Photographer: Bluebus
    Notes: 2009 photo at Christchurch, New Zealand

    By 8 October 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for ZK-CIF (Convair 580, 381) issued.

    By 8 October 2019

    To unknown owner with c/r ZK-CIF.

    8 October 2019

    Civil registration, ZK-CIF, cancelled.
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    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
    Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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