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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:141016 USN
    Construction Number:440-299
    Last Civil Registration:N342GS
    Compressed ID:Convair C-131F sn 141016 USN cn 440...
    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 141016.

    Redesignated as C-131F.

    15 February 1985

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1G022.

    To Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    20 March 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Davis Monthan, AZ, USA

    17 December 2012

    To Great Southern Airways with new c/r N342GS.

    17 December 2012

    To Great Southern Airways Llc, Miami Lakes, FL keeping c/r N342GS.

    22 June 2015

    To unknown owner with c/r N342GS.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Miami Lakes, FL.

    4 August 2015

    To Conquest Air Inc, Miami Lakes, FL keeping c/r N342GS.

    5 April 2017


    Photographer: Ernie Szelepcsenyi
    Notes: Maintenance personnel were working on the engines at the time the photo was taken at Miami, Opa-locka, Florida (KOPF)

    23 March 2018

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR342GS (C-131F, 299) issued.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
    MASDC III, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona by Bonny, Swann and Fryer
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
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