slide scan from the NK collection. - Lufthansa operated a total of eleven Convair 440's; D-ACEX is shown here in the final colour scheme shortly before being sold to Air Algerie. After conversion into a model -640 it flew in Algeria and later in Canada until the early 90ies. The last operator Time Air retired it at Springbank as C-GQCY, where it was broken up in 2005.

Photographer Henry Tenby

Photographer Elio Viroli

Official Lufthansa photo CH 311-8-7. Delivered 18 September 1957. Converted to CV-640 7T-VAY for Air Algerie 1968. Sold 1982 as N849TA, High Line Airways C-GQCY 1982, Norcanair 1988, Time Air 1988. Withdrawn Calgary Springbank 1991 and subsequently scrapped.

The first Lufthansa scheduled flight to Fornebu was on 5 November 1966. From time onwards, Lufthansa operated a weekly Saturday CV-440 flight from Hamburg via Gothenburg to Fornebu, and the first arrival was photographed on a rainy opening day. First flight was in 1957, and delivered new to LH as D-ACEX on 18 September 1957. On 31 June 1968 it was sold to Air Algerie as 7T-VAY, and converted to a CV-640 with RR Dart 542 turbo prop engines. April 1982 N849TA for Atlas Aircraft Corp, and a month later to C-GQCY for High Line Airways. To Norcanair in 1988, operated for TimeAir unitl withdrawn from use in March 1993.

ex D-ACEX (CV440-98). Became N849TA, C-GQCY, wfu in 1993

Still in old Air Algerie colours.

Ex-N849TA, 7T-VAY, D-ACEX

Owned by Atlas Aircraft Corporation. Still in the basic cols of previous operator Air Algerie ex 7T-VAY. Originally a Convair 440 with Lufthansa D-ACEX. It was sold to High Line Airways in May 82 as C-GQCY.

Sold in Canada as C-GQCY in May 1982