Aircraft Photo of N314H | Convair 240-0 | Air Rajneesh | AirHistory.net #613503
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:N314H
Aircraft Original Type:Convair 240
Aircraft Generic Type:Convair 240/600 (C-131/T-29/Samaritan)
Aircraft Version:Convair 240-0
C/n (msn):31
Operator Titles:Air Rajneesh
Location
City / Airport:Chicago / Romeoville - Lewis UniversityMap
Region / Country:Illinois, United States
Airport Codes:ICAO: KLOT   IATA: LOT   Local: LOT   Other: -
 
Photo Date:October 1989
Photo from:Michael Roeser Collection
Photo ID: 613503
Photo Comment

Photographer: Adrian Stanislovaitis. K25 slide scan. Built 1948 as NC94218 for American Airlines, retired 1958. N1L with various corporate owners, reregistered N7779 1968. Hughes Aircraft Co. N314H 1970. Air Resorts 1982, operating for Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh alongside DC-3's N2647 and N31MC and Islander N555JK out of Antelope OR, then called Rajneeshpuram until he was expelled from the USA in 1985. The Convair was withdrawn at Lewis University Airport at Chicago-Romeoville. Sold 1998, dismantled and transported to rural Ohio for conversion into a restaurant but plan failed.

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