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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:CV-440
    Last Military Serial:12+01 Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:340-148
    Last Civil Registration:N24AT
    Compressed ID:Convair CV-440 sn 12+01 Luftwaffe c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cradle of Aviation Museum, Mitchell Field, Garden City, Long Island, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CV-340-68A.

    1954

    To Convair with new c/r N8424H {3}.

    Converted to a CV-440.

    6 February 1954

    To Union Carbide (and) Carbon with new c/r N40N.

    28 March 1960

    To Union Carbide (and) Carbon with new c/r N401M.

    27 April 1960

    To Rockwell Manufacturing Company keeping c/r N401M.

    29 June 1960

    To Rockwell Manufacturing Company with new c/r N44R.

    16 October 1962

    To Fairchild Stratos Corporation keeping c/r N44R.

    November 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n CA+036.

    1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n 12+01.

    12 December 1973

    To Integrity Aircraft Inc with new c/r N5DG.

    31 July 1974

    To The State Bank of Fort Lee keeping c/r N5DG.

    1975

    To Alice Cooper keeping c/r N5DG.

    21 March 1975

    Certificate of airworthiness for N24AT (340, 148) issued.

    11 September 1975


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Former German Air Force Convair 340 visiting Heathrow in September 1975.

    1976

    To Maspeth Seven Leasing Corporation keeping c/r N5DG.

    4 June 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Convair 340 seen at Republic Airport on Long Island, New York in the Summer of 1977 was previously in service with the Luftwaffe as 12+01. The digits 01 were still visible on the tailfin.

    10 May 1979

    To Five Delta Golf keeping c/r N5DG.

    20 March 1980

    To Cosmopolitan Airlines keeping c/r N5DG.

    February 1981

    To Air Texana keeping c/r N5DG.

    6 April 1981

    To Air Texana with new c/r N24AT.

    21 November 1981

    To Cosmopolitan Airlines keeping c/r N24AT.

    9 December 1986

    To Harry Hammer keeping c/r N24AT.

    October 1993

    To Federal Airlines keeping c/r N24AT.

    27 March 1995

    To Hammer Margaret, West Palm BCH, FL keeping c/r N24AT.

    Based at Cradle of Aviation Museum, Mitchell Field, Garden City, Long Island, NY.
    Only nose / cockpit survives.
    View the Location Dossier

    14 July 2009


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: This nose section, complete with a flight deck one can sit in, is preserved in period Lufthansa colors at the Cradle of Aviation Museum

    27 June 2012

    Civil registration, N24AT, cancelled.

    29 August 2017


    Photographer: Arjun Sarup
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