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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:CV-440
    Construction Number:340-063
    Last Civil Registration:N138CA
    Compressed ID:Convair CV-440 cn 340-063 cr N138CA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a CV-340-41.

    1953

    Civil registration N3445 reserved but not taken up.
    For Northeast Airlines.

    24 April 1953

    To Alitalia with new c/r I-DOGI.

    By May 1953


    Photographer: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives
    Notes: Prior to delivery

    Converted to a CV-440.

    29 March 1961

    To Finnair Air Lines with new c/r OH-LRG.


    Photographer: Paul Bannwarth Collection
    Notes: At Eelde

    March 1980

    To Cosmopolitan Airlines with new c/r N3756Z.

    26 June 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for N138CA (340, 063) issued.

    December 1981

    To Cosmopolitan Airlines with new c/r N138CA.

    November 1983

    To Coastal Airlines Express keeping c/r N138CA.

    23 February 1984

    To Air Resorts keeping c/r N138CA.

    11 December 1984

    To Margaret Hammer, West Palm Beach FL keeping c/r N138CA.

    29 October 1996

    To Air Museum, Chino, CA keeping c/r N138CA.

    In the inventory of Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
    View the Location Dossier

    17 January 2003

    Civil registration, N138CA, cancelled.

    Cockpit only survives.

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Planes of Fame Museum, Chino, California
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     Terry Fletcher
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