Photographer: Joseph D Lezark. K25 slide scan. Built 1956 as OH-LRD for Finnair. Cosmopolitan Airlines N137CA 1980, renamed Coastal Express Airlines 1983. Sold to Margaret Hammer, West Palm Beach 1984 and Winemiller Aviation 1993. Lost hydraulic pressure and went off runway colliding with UH-60 on landing Cap Haitien 18 March 1995 while operating for Gulf and Caribbean Cargo.

Delivered to the US Navy as R4Y-1 140997 in 1955. Redesignated as a C-131F in 1962. Withdrawn from use at Davis-Monthan AFB in 1980. Sold to Hamilton Aviation for scrap in 1985.

Photographer: Joseph D Lezark. K25 slide scan. Built 1953 as CV-340 N4815 for Delta, converted to CV-440, retired 1969. Aspen Airways 1970, Sierra Pacific 1974, Music City Airways 1976, Gulf Air Transport 1979. Converted to freighter for General Aviation 1983, reregistered N453GA 1984. Kitty Hawk 1989, Rhoades N153JR 1992, Jet One Express 2005. Crashed 15 March 2012 after take off from San Juan, PR due to engine failure and sank in shallow water.

Photo via G. Bouma

A Convair 440 built for Varig, but not taken up but was instead delivered to Venezuela for Avensa in 1956. Converted to a 580 in 1969, the aircraft sold to Plymouth Leasing in 1979. Leased as N589PL to Air New England, Sierra Pacific Airlines and Prinair over the next ten years, it was bought by Kelowna Flightcraft with the re-used registration C-GKFP in 1990. Pictured flying seasonally for Wollaston Lake Lodge, the aircraft was sold to Nolinor Aviation in 2005. On August 3, 2011 the nose gear collapsed landing at Kasba Lake Airport, NT , damaging the aircraft beyond repair.

Photographer: Joseph D Lezark. K25 slide scan. Built 1954 as CV-340 N73151 for United. Converted to CV-580 for Lake Central 1967, merged into Allegheny 1968 as N5836. Commuter Airlines1978, renamed Freedom Airlines 1981. Air Ontario C-GGWI 1984, converted to freighter for Canair Cargo 1990. Cargo Three Panama HP-1221CTH 1992, later reregistered HP-1221CTW and HP-1221. Last noted derelict Panama 2011.

With both the museum and the airport closed, the future of this lovely classic Convair looks to be slowly fading and rusting away at the airport.

Seen just a month after being converted to a 580 taxiing for departure from Port Columbus.

Built 1953 as CV-340-38 for KLM as PH-TGF, re-registered to PH-CGF in 1954 and converted to CV-440. Later N157W and N4406 Mohawk Airlines and Lake Central Airlines (converted to CV-580 in August 1967, N5839 Allegheny Airlines, Mountain West Airlines, and Sierra Pacific Airlines before sold to Nor-Fly Charter December 1980. January 1985 to Partnair, Late 1989 wfu. July 1991 C-FKFJ Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter, September 1994 CS-TMG Agroar, November 1996 G-FKFJ Kelowna (returned), July 2003 ZK-KFJ Air Freight NZ until wfu at Auckland August 2017 and later broken up there.

First flight 9.January 1953 as CV-340-31 for United Airlines, reg N73123 delivered 31.January 1953. To Lake Central 10.August 1964. (Converted to CV-580 in 1967). 1.August 1968 N543 Allegheny Airlines. 10.January 1980 LN-BWG Nor-Fly A/S, November 1981 transferred to Nor-Fly Charter. 29.September 1985 LN-BWG to Partnair, not repainted the first year. June 1988 LN-BWG leased to Ryanair in All-White with Ryanair logo and titles. October 1988 Partnair (returned). wfu late 1989. 13.March 1991 C-FKFL Kelowna Flightcraft. 11.February 1997 ZK-KFH. April 217 wfu at Auckland after 60 years of flying.

Built 1956 and delivered to SAS as SE-BSR "Bjarne Viking" on August 21st 1956, arrived at FBU 5 days later. Repainted during 1966, and operated for SAS until wfu November 30th 1975. Sold December 3rd 1975 to Nor-Fly A/S and registred LN-KLK. Transferred to Nor-Fly Charter on November 23rd 1981 Wfu as the final CV-440 in Nor-Fly Charter 1984, and in May 1984 sold to veteran club Norsk Metropollitan Klubb, and flonw with members on air shows until wfu June 30th 1988. Has been preserved at The Sola Air Museum.

Photographer: Ken Marshall.

Photographer: Ken Marshall.