| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | CF-BGY |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Convair 240 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Convair 340/440/540/580/640 (C-131) |
| Aircraft Version: | Convair 580 |
| C/n (msn): | 72 |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | Toronto - Lester B Pearson InternationalMap |
| Region / Country: | Ontario, Canada |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: CYYZ IATA: YYZ Local: - Other: - |
| Photo Date: | 26 August 1971 |
| Photo by: | Gary Vincent |
| Photo ID: | 546757 |
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Great Lakes Paper operated this Convair 580 March 1970 to January 1973. Originally Convair 340 N73134 Mainliner Portland with United Airlines in 1953, it was owned by Johnson and Johnson as N400J after 1958. Converted to a 580 in 1963, the aircraft moved to the USA again in 1973 as N8EH. With the Canadian government as C-GRSC from July 1974 utilized for research with the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources and Canada Centre for Remote Sensing. Retired circa 2010, the aircraft was donated to the Canada Air and Space Museum in 2015 and housed in their reserve collection at Rockliffe, ON. This photo is copyright © Gary Vincent, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 12 February 2023, and has since been viewed 201 times. |