Convair 580, CF-BGY / 72, The Great Lakes Paper Company
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Registration: CF-BGY
Construction Number: 72
Model Convair 580
Operator: The Great Lakes Paper Company
Airport: Toronto International - Malton (YYZ / CYYZ), Canada - Ontario
Photographer: Mike Ody Collection via George Trussell
Date Taken: 19/05/1971
Date Submitted: 18/12/2016
W.M. (Bill) Haines photo. Originally a United Airlines Convair 340 later converted to Turbo-prop power as N400J, then CF-BGY between 1970 and 1973. Returned to the USA as N8EH but returned to Canada as C-GRSC in 1974 and operated by the Canadian Government for radar research until 2010. The aircraft became part of the permanent collection of the Canadian Aeronautical and Space Museum in Ottawa in 2015.
Picture ID:1552318