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    Airframe Family: Boeing B247 / C-73
    Latest Model:247D
    Last Military Serial:7638 RCAF
    Construction Number:1699
    Last Civil Registration:CF-JRQ
    Compressed ID:Boeing 247D sn 7638 RCAF cn 1699 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    1933

    Constructed as a 247.

    1 May 1933

    To National Air Transport with new c/r NC13318.

    1 May 1934

    To United Airlines keeping c/r NC13318.

    July 1935

    Converted to a 247D.

    October 1937

    To Pennsylvania Central Airlines keeping c/r NC13318.

    June 1940

    To Canada Department of Munitions with new c/r CF-BQS.

    June 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 7638.

    June 1942

    To Quebec Airways Ltd with new c/r CF-BVX.

    1943

    To Canadian Pacific Air Lines keeping c/r CF-BVX.

    1945

    To MacQuire Industries with new c/r NC41809.

    1945

    To ZigZag Airways keeping c/r NC41809.

    1948


    Photographer: J.Chalmers
    Notes: NC41809, Zig Zag AL, Oakland, 1948,

    To R. Williams Phoenix AZ keeping c/r NC41809.
    Converted to Crop Duster.

    To Central Aircraft Inc, Seattle, WA with new c/r N41809.

    4 April 1956

    To Central Aircraft Inc, Seattle, WA keeping c/r N41809.

    26 February 1958

    Civil registration, N41809, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    January 1959

    To Chevron Standard Ltd with new c/r CF-JRQ.

    1967

    Based at Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, ON.
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    1969


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection
    Notes: Boeing 247, CF-JRQ, at Rockcliffe, in 1969

    1969


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection

    15 September 2013


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 2013 photo at Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa-Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)

    11 December 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
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