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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:CV-300
    Construction Number:240-126
    Last Civil Registration:N503C
    Compressed ID:Convair CV-300 cn 240-126 cr N503C
    Latest Owner or Location:Gala Enterprise Inc, Miami, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CV-240-14.

    28 February 1949

    To Central Air Transport with new c/r XT-602.

    19 December 1949

    To Civil Air Transport with new c/r N8301C.

    1 December 1952

    To Civil Air Transport SA Panama keeping c/r N8301C.

    15 May 1954

    To Civil Air Transport with new c/r N4925V.

    June 1954

    To Imperial Oil Company with new c/r CF-IOK.

    11 September 1961

    To Flour Corporation with new c/r N400M.

    Converted to a CV-300.

    25 May 1972

    To C. W. Matthews Contracting with new c/r N737Z.

    1974

    To C. W. Matthews Contracting with new c/r N502CW.

    17 June 1975

    To C. W. Matthews Contracting with new c/r N503C.

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Dana A.Nichols
    Notes: At Anchorage, Alaska

    16 April 1978

    To Don Mac Contracting keeping c/r N503C.

    10 February 1982

    To Gala Enterprise Inc, Miami, FL keeping c/r N503C.

    Withdrawn from use.

    14 October 2014

    Civil registration, N503C, cancelled.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N503C (240-14, 126) issued.
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