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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:C-131F Samaritan
    Last Military Serial:141028 USN
    Construction Number:340-311
    Last Civil Registration:N344GS
    Compressed ID:Convair C-131F sn 141028 USN cn 340...
    Latest Owner or Location:Conquest Air Inc, Miami Lakes, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R4Y-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 141028.

    Redesignated as C-131F.

    From 27 July 1982 to 13 January 2012

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1G0016.

    13 January 2012

    To Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    3 December 2012

    To unknown owner with c/r N344GS (C-131F, 311).
    Remained at ARM, Davis-Monthan.

    17 December 2012

    To Great Southern Airways Llc, Miami Lakes, FL keeping c/r N344GS.

    4 March 2014


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Scrapyards around Davis Monthan AFB

    22 June 2015

    To unknown owner with c/r N344GS.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Miami Lakes, FL. remained at ARM, Davis-Monthan.

    4 August 2015

    To Conquest Air Inc, Miami Lakes, FL keeping c/r N344GS.
    Remained at ARM, Davis-Monthan.

    15 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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