| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | N396CG |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Convair 240 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Convair 240/600 (C-131/T-29/Samaritan) |
| Aircraft Version: | Convair 240-5 |
| C/n (msn): | 93 |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | Shafter - Minter FieldMap |
| Region / Country: | California, United States |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: - IATA: - Local: MIT Other: - |
| Photo Date: | 3 March 2024 |
| Photo by: | Gary Vincent |
| Photo ID: | 669865 |
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With history going back to 1948 with Trans Australian Airlines (VH-TAS), this CV240 had later registrations AP-AHS (Pakistan Internal Airlines), PH-NLP and PH-EUT (Fokker operating for Euravia), N559R (Beldex Corp) and N396GC (Faberge Inc). Faberge allowed free use of the aircraft to retired actor Cary Grant when he became a creative consultant with the company in 1970. Later stored, it became a project for California Air Heritage Foundation in 2010 which later floundered. The fuselage is currently stored at Shafter - Minter Field at the time of uploading. This photo is copyright © Gary Vincent, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 24 March 2024, and has since been viewed 133 times. |