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: 07/1970
Date Submitted: 10/04/2018
Originally a United Airlines CV-340 N73134 in 1953; then to Johnson and Johnson as an executive aircraft in 1958; converted to CV-580 turboprop in 1963 and then sold to Canada in 1970. Returned to the USA in 1973 as N8EH. Then brought back to Canada in 1974 by the Government of Canada as C-GRSC. The aircraft was retired in 2010 and donated to the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Canada to where it was flown in June 2015.
Picture ID:1600263