| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | N74859 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Convair 240 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Convair 240/600 (C-131/T-29/Samaritan) |
| Aircraft Version: | Convair 600 |
| C/n (msn): | 178 |
| Operator Titles: | Central Airlines |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | Baton Rouge - Metropolitan / Ryan FieldMap |
| Region / Country: | Louisiana, United States |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: KBTR IATA: BTR Local: BTR Other: - |
| Photo Date: | 15 July 1967 |
| Photo by: | Bob Thomas |
| Photo ID: | 631054 |
| Photo Comment |
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Originally built as a Convair 240-23 and delivered new to Garuda Indonesian Airways as PK-GCI. To General Dynamics in October 1964 as N94294, and was the first Convair 600 conversion. Delivered to Central Airlines in December 1965 as CV-600-240D N74859. Central merged with Frontier Airlines in October 1967. Exported to Indonesia in December 1970. Registered as PK-RCP and operated by Seulawah Airways. Withdrawn from use in 1979. This photo is copyright © Bob Thomas, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 16 December 2023, and has since been viewed 79 times. |