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
City / Airport:Toronto - Lester B Pearson International (CYYZ / YYZ)Map
Region / Country:Ontario, Canada
Photo Date:26 August 1971
Photo by:Gary VincentContact
Photo ID:546757Submit Correction
View count: 133
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.
Registration / Serial:CF-BGY
Aircraft Version:Convair 580
C/n (msn):72
City / Airport:Toronto - Lester B Pearson International (CYYZ / YYZ)Map
Region / Country:Ontario, Canada
Photo Date:26 August 1971
Photo by:Gary VincentContact
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
City / Airport:Toronto - Lester B Pearson International (CYYZ / YYZ)Map
Region / Country:Ontario, Canada
Photo Date:26 August 1971
Photo by:Gary VincentContact
Photo ID:546757Submit Correction
View count: 133
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.
Registration / Serial:CF-BGY
Aircraft Version:Convair 580
C/n (msn):72
City / Airport:Toronto - Lester B Pearson International (CYYZ / YYZ)Map
Region / Country:Ontario, Canada
Photo Date:26 August 1971
Photo by:Gary VincentContact