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    Airframe Family: Martin 4-0-4
    Latest Model:4-0-4
    Construction Number:14150
    Last Civil Registration:N144S
    Compressed ID:Martin 4-0-4 cn 14150 cr N144S
    Latest Owner or Location:Save A Connie Inc, Kansas City MO

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    Dates

    Event

    1952

    Constructed as a 4-0-4.

    March 1952

    To Eastern Air Lines with new c/r N459A.
    Operated with markings: 459

    October 1961

    To Southern Airways with new c/r N144S.
    Operated with markings: 104

    1978

    To Florida Air Lines keeping c/r N144S.
    Markings added: Sanibel Island

    September 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Florida Airlines had taken over Air South on intra-state services. The duty operations supervisor invited us to go along on a no-passenger ferry from Miami to Fort Lauderdale on N144S, seen parked at Miami International terminal

    By 1987

    To Systems International Airways keeping c/r N144S.

    10 November 1987


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: N144S Martin 4-O-4 Systems International Airways. One of a trio of immaculate Martins parked at SIAs base of Bartow Municipal, Florida.

    9 July 1992

    To Business Funding of Florida Inc, North Miami Beach, FL keeping c/r N144S.

    12 October 1995

    To Save A Connie Inc, Kansas City MO keeping c/r N144S.

    29 November 2001

    Civil registration, N144S, cancelled.
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