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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:CV-440-62
    Last Military Serial:12+06 Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:440-504
    Last Civil Registration:N204RA
    Compressed ID:Convair CV-440-62 sn 12+06 Luftwaff...
    Latest Owner or Location:JBQ Aviation Corporation

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a CV-440-62.

    Civil registration PP-YRO reserved but not taken up.
    Intended for Real SA.

    To General Dynamics Company with new c/r N8470H.

    March 1958

    To Hughes Tool Company keeping c/r N8470H.

    May 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n CA+033.

    New serial number assigned: 12+06 Luftwaffe

    2 March 1971


    Photographer: Pertti Sipila
    Notes: At Tampere, Finland

    July 1974

    To Joseph V. Massin with new c/r N90720.

    August 1974

    To Great Lakes Airlines with new c/r C-GOYO.

    17 April 1975

    Certificate of airworthiness for N67162 (440, 504) issued.

    1 May 1975

    To Air Alliance with new c/r N67162.

    1977

    To Golden State Airlines with new c/r N400GS.

    1979

    To Kelowna Flightcraft Charter with new c/r C-GKFC.

    January 1981

    To Powell Air keeping c/r C-GKFC.

    1983


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: Photo taken in 1983 at Vancouver Int - whilst operated by Powell Air

    January 1987

    To Omni Aviation Services keeping c/r C-GKFC.

    April 1987

    To Renown Aviation Inc with new c/r N204RA.

    July 1987

    To Clyde W. Mitchell keeping c/r N204RA.

    4 September 1988


    Photographer: Paul Hooper
    Notes: Photographed at Laredo, TX.

    12 January 1995

    To JBQ Aviation Corporation, Miami, FL keeping c/r N204RA.

    February 1995

    To JBQ Aviation Corporation keeping c/r N204RA.

    1996


    Photographer: Mark Fidler

    16 October 2002

    Civil registration, N204RA, cancelled.
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