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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:141009 USN
    Construction Number:340-292
    Last Civil Registration:N8149P
    Compressed ID:Convair C-131F sn 141009 USN cn 340...
    Latest Owner or Location:Oakland County International Airport, Pontiac, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R4Y-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 141009.

    Redesignated as C-131F.

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Unknown

    By 1976

    To Naval Air Facility, RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk.

    27 August 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This C-131F Samaritan of the US Navy detachment at RAF Mildenhall was in the display at the 1978 Mildenhall Air Fete.

    By 1980

    Transferred to NAF Mildenhall, RAF Mildenhall.

    23 August 1980


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: C-131F Samaritan of the United States Naval Air Facility at RAF Mildenhall on display at the 1980 Air Fete.

    26 June 1981

    Transferred to NAS Guantamano Bay, Cuba.

    30 March 1984


    Photographer: U.S.Navy
    Notes: Officers and Enlisted of OMD, Naval Air Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 30 MAR 1984.

    27 January 1986

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number IG0023.

    7 July 1998

    To Beaufort County Council, Beaufort, SC with new c/r N8149P.

    7 July 1998

    Based at Beaufort County Mosquito Control Unit, Beaufort County Airport, Beaufort, SC.
    Converted for use as a mosquito sprayer.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: Spirit of Tom Ray Bubba Bird

    6 May 2011

    To unknown owner with c/r N8149P.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Waterford, MI.

    23 June 2011

    To Ifl Group Inc, Waterford, MI keeping c/r N8149P.

    Based at Oakland County International Airport, Pontiac, MI.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 009

    19 February 2022

    Civil registration, N8149P, cancelled.


    Photographer: Unknown
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    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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