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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:109151 CAF
    Construction Number:CL-66B-1
    Last Civil Registration:N4AX
    Compressed ID:Convair CV-580 sn 109151 CAF cn CL-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Calgary International Airport, Calgary, Alberta

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CC-109 by Canadair at Montreal, QC.
    First CL-66 completely built by Canadair.

    7 January 1960

    First flight.

    21 June 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 11151.

    Transferred to No. 412 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Uplands, ON.


    Photographer: Unknown

    Converted to a CV-580.

    June 1961

    Carried AVM Easton and Cornblatt to Burbank, California and return.

    June 1962

    Carried Pakistan High Commissioner, Sultan M. Kahn, Ottawa to Toronto and back.

    Transferred to No. 412 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Uplands, ON.

    26 May 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 109151.

    By October 1979


    Photographer: Unknown

    1988


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: RCAF CC109 109151 seen landing at Ramstein AFB, Germany in 1988

    7 July 1994

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Canadian Armed Forces.
    Withdrawn from use.

    Circa 1994

    Withdrawn from use.
    Placed in storage.

    1995

    Assigned to Air Maintenance Development Unit, CFB Trenton for storage.

    October 1996

    To North Canada Corporation with new c/r C-FNCI.

    23 June 2000

    To Las Vegas Leasing with new c/r N4AX.

    By June 2001


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at Calgary, AB.

    Withdrawn from use.

    2012

    Civil registration, N4AX, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Calgary International Airport, Calgary, AB.
    View the Location Dossier

    17 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2010 photo at Calgary International - this aircraft was the first of 10 Ten Canadair CL-66B (CV540) Cosmopolitans bought by the Canadian Air Force, designated CC-109. Eight, including this RCAF 109151, were converted to CV580 (engines). It has been stored at Calgary since July 1994

    16 October 2012

    To unknown owner with c/r N4AX.
    Sale reported to a new owner in XXXX, OK.
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     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers by Brian Walker
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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