RON DUPAS COLLECTION
No. 397. Cessna 500 Citation I (N536V c/n 5000032)
Photographed at Portland, Oregon, USA, by Ron Dupas

Cessna 500 Citation I

12/31/2010. The aircraft was registered N536V to Valmont Industries Inc. on August 11, 1972, four years later, August 1976, it was sold to Canada where it was registered as C-GXFZ to Collingwood Air Services. Again four years later, 1980, it was reregistered to Data Bird Ltd. and converted to a freighter. On December 3, 1982, Air Niagara Express Ltd Inc. became the last owner, as the aircraft crashed near Orillia Airport, Ontario, Canada, on September 26, 1984, after losing controls during a low pass.