Not sure where this kind of aircraft should really go, message board wise, so as this is my usual haunt I’ll stick them here!
On my travels in Texas, passing by Palacios airfield on the Gulf coast. Saw some interesting tails so went to investigate, and found these two Convairs:
Convair 440:
Convair 340/580:
By: Hatton - 27th August 2003 at 20:40
yes..yes they do.
By: Old Fart - 27th August 2003 at 15:00
Don’t Air Atlantic at Coventry have a 440?
By: futurshox - 27th August 2003 at 14:32
Fair enough. I hadn’t a clue what they were so posted up what the N-register website told me….
Glad y’all like the pictures, anyway 🙂
By: Olivier Lacombe - 27th August 2003 at 14:18
Those are Convairs 580, and the Canadian one is a CL-66 Cosmopolitan, built in Montréal.
😉
By: A330Crazy - 27th August 2003 at 11:16
futurshox, Beautiful photos! Thanks for posting them up.
Was it Channel Express that used these in the UK? Do they still continue to use them?
By: alamo - 27th August 2003 at 09:00
Here’s one I took earlier (1978)
By: Kenneth - 25th August 2003 at 21:40
The Norwegian CV440 is in a museum in Norway now and has not flown for many years. I remember hearing something about its flying career being curtailed by too high costs involved in upgrading its interior to meet new fireblocking standards which came in force in the late 80ies, thus prohibiting the carriage of paying passengers. It is a great shame that not more effort was made in Scandinavia to preserve complete Metropolitans as they formed the backbone of SAS’ regional fleet for many years, the end of the career in 1977 being marked by three of them making a formation flight around Denmark (which I vaguely remember seeing… 😀 )
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