Delivered to Sabena as CV440-12 OO-SCM in 1956. To Frontier Airlines as N73161 in 1967 and converted to a CV580. To Frontier Commuter in 1983 then to Metroflight in American Eagle colours in 1984. Traded in to SAAB then to European Air Transport/DHL as OO-DHI in 1988. It was being converted to a freighter for them by Hamilton Aviation when this photo was taken. I could not positively ID it. It could be OO-DHH. Transferred to Swiftair as EC-899 and damaged beyond repair in a wheels up landing at Vitoria in 1995

DHL had a freight contract for a route from Glasgow which meant a day-stopping Convair in 1993.

In Metro Airlines livery, this 580 was traded to SAAB, and crashed in Spain in 1995 on a training flight with Swiftair.

Sabena's Metropolitan arrives at Ringway from Brussels. It served the airline from July 1956 until January 1968 when it was sold to Frontier Airlines and converted to CV580 standard.