A nice prop visitor to Luton. Built in 1957 as a Convair 440-90 and registered to Convair as N8466H. Delivered to General Dynamics Corp as N440J on 20 Mar 1957. To the Gulf Oil Co as N108G in Jan 1962. Converted to a Convair 580 on 28 Mar 1962. Reregistered to N108GL in Mar 1971. To N114M in Apr 1971. To N114ML in Feb 1977. To Sweden and ScanBee as SE-IEY in Dec 1980. To Canada with Kelowna Flightcraft as C-GKFL on 20Jan 1987 and converted to a freighter. To New Zealand as ZK-KFL with Air Freight NZ in Feb 1990. Transferred to Air Chatham on 29 Nov 2016. Scrapped by Jun 2022.

Photographer: Neil Aird.

K25 slide scan. Built 1956 as CV-440 N4866H. Retained by General Dynamics as N440J for company use. Converted to CV-580 1962 and sold to Gulf Oil as N108G. Montex Drilling N104M 1971, N104ML 1977. Scanbee SE-IEY 1980. Kelowna C-FKFL 1987, Air Freight NZ ZK-KFL 1990.

Ex C-FKFL, registered 19th Apr 1990

Operated by Executive Flight Services. Sold Jul 80 to Kungsair US Corporation. To ScanBee Dec 80 as SE-IEY. To Kelowna Flightcraft Jan 87 as C-GKFL. To Air Freight NZ Apr 90 as ZK-KFL. Noted stored Palmerston North Sep 2016. Sold to Air Chathams for for spares.