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    Airframe Family: Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29
    Latest Model:VT-29B Samaritan
    Last Military Serial:51-3804 USAF
    Construction Number:240-232
    Last Civil Registration:N148JR
    Compressed ID:Convair VT-29B sn 51-3804 USAF cn 2...
    Latest Owner or Location:Freeman Field, Seymour, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-29B.

    Circa 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-3804.

    Converted to a VT-29B.

    1 April 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-3804.

    January 1975

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Davis Monthan AFB, AZ.

    16 February 1977

    To Providence Air Charter with new c/r N54502.

    July 1978

    To Providence Airlines with new c/r N151PA.

    30 December 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for N148JR (240-27, 232) issued.

    May 1983

    To Combs Airways keeping c/r N151PA.

    1 October 1984

    To Pandora Enterprises keeping c/r N151PA.

    November 1984

    To Pandora Enterprises with new c/r N351JD.

    12 February 1987

    To Rhoades International keeping c/r N351JD.

    23 March 1990

    To Air Cargo Express International keeping c/r N351JD.

    April 1991

    To Air Cargo Express with new c/r N148JR.

    April 1995

    To K-Air Inc, Birmingham, MI keeping c/r N148JR.

    1997


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Summer 1997. Holman Aviation ramp, Great Falls International Airport, Montana.

    Circa 2006


    Photographer: Ian Atkinson
    Notes: At Freeman Field, Seymour, IN

    By 2006

    Derelict.

    25 September 2007

    To Richard Knight, Clarkston, MI keeping c/r N148JR.

    Based at Freeman Field, Seymour, IN.
    View the Location Dossier

    Withdrawn from use.

    31 January 2013

    Civil registration, N148JR, cancelled.

    By 2019

    Scrapped.
    Presumed scrapped.
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Terry Fletcher
    ian McAllister
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